Thesaurus: mountebank

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1. 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.
2. n. Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
3. v. t. To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.
4. v. i. To play the mountebank.
5. n. a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes
6. 1. 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. Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that a mountebank ... is preferred before an able physician. Whitlock. 2. Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack. Nothing so impossible in nature but mountebanks will undertake. Arbuthnot. To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull. [R.] Shak. To play the mountebank.
7. To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull. [R.] Shak.
8. n:100 n. a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes