mountebank

[Mount·e*bank]

A mountebank has a talent for tricking people into buying things, like the mountebank who charms women into buying "magic beauty pills" for hundreds of dollars, though they are just ordinary vitamins you can buy anywhere.

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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.

Noun
a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes


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.

n.
Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.

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

v. i.
To play the mountebank.


Mountebank

Mount"e*bank , n. [It. montimbanco, montambanco; montare to mount + in in, upon + banco bench. See Mount, and 4th Bank.] 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.
2. Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
Nothing so impossible in nature but mountebanks will undertake.

Mountebank

Mount"e*bank, v. t. To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull. [R.] Shak.

Mountebank

Mount"e*bank, v. i. To play the mountebank.

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.

To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.

To play the mountebank.

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