mountebank
noun · verbB2Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Danh từ
noun- 1.
One who sells dubious medicines.
- 2.
One who sells by deception; a con artist.
Are you allowing yourselves to be fooled by this mountebank, this harlequin? Do you cringe before a religion compounded of clouds and moonbeams? This man is an imposter and the Galactic Spirit he speaks of a fraud of the imagination devised to——
Đồng nghĩa: charlatan, conman, fake, quack, bristler, bunco artist, bunco-steerer, chiseler, con artist, confidence artist, confidence trickster, conman, flimflammer, grifter, lugger, magsman, mountebank, saltimbanco, sharpster, sharker, shark-gull, slicker, smooth operator, spiv
- 3.
Any boastful, false pretender.
- 4.
(obsolete)An acrobat.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive)To act as a mountebank.
- 2.
(transitive)To cheat by boasting and false pretenses.
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From archaic Italian montambanco (quack who mounts a bench to hawk his wares), contracted from monta-in-banco (mount on bench).