German Meaning of mountebank

Scharlatan

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Definitions and Meaning of mountebank in English

Wordnet

mountebank (n)

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

Webster

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.

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

Webster

mountebank (v. t.)

To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.

Webster

mountebank (v. i.)

To play the mountebank.

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Scharlatan

a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokesOne who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill i

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