Definition of mountebank

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Mountebank (v. t.) To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.

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Mountebank :: Mountebank (n.) Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
Charlatan :: Charlatan (n.) One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank..
Mountebank :: Mountebank (n.) One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor..
Mountebankish :: Mountebankish (a.) Like a mountebank or his quackery.
Mountebankery :: Mountebankery (n.) The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
Saltimbanco :: Saltimbanco (n.) A mountebank; a quack.
Mountebank :: Mountebank (v. i.) To play the mountebank.
Quacksalver :: Quacksalver (n.) One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank..
Mountebankism :: Mountebankism (n.) The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery.
Merry-andrew :: Merry-andrew (n.) One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor..
Mountebank :: Mountebank (v. t.) To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.
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