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Mountebank

//ˈmaʊntəˌbæŋk// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who sells dubious medicines.

    "She is abus'd, ſtolne from me, and corrupted / By Spels, and Medicines, bought of Mountebanks"

  2. 2
    a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes wordnet
  3. 3
    One who sells by deception; a con artist.

    "Donne was a mountebank who wrapped up his lack of meaning in hard words."

  4. 4
    Any boastful, false pretender.

    "They ſay this towne is full of coſenage: / As nimble Iuglers that deceiue the eie: / Darke working Sorcerers that change the minde: / Soule-killing Witches that deforme the bodie: / Diſguiſed Cheaters, prating Mountebankes, / And manie ſuch like liberties of ſinne:"

  5. 5
    An acrobat. obsolete
Verb
  1. 1
    To act as a mountebank. intransitive
  2. 2
    To cheat by boasting and false pretenses. transitive

    "Ile Mountebanke their Loues, / Cogge their Hearts from them,"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From archaic Italian montambanco (“quack who mounts a bench to hawk his wares”), contracted from monta-in-banco (“mount on bench”).

Etymology 2

From archaic Italian montambanco (“quack who mounts a bench to hawk his wares”), contracted from monta-in-banco (“mount on bench”).

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