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What (who) is mountebank - definition
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Mountebanks; Mountebank (disambiguation)
mountebank
n.
Pretender, charlatan, empiric, quack, quack doctor.
mountebank
['ma?nt?ba?k]
¦ noun
1. a person who deceives others.
2. historical a person who sold patent medicines in public.
Derivatives
mountebankery noun
Origin
C16: from Ital. montambanco, from the imperative phr. monta in banco! 'climb on the bench!' (with allusion to the raised platform used to attract an audience).
Mountebank
·vi To play the mountebank.
II. Mountebank ·noun Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
III. Mountebank ·vt To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to Gull.
IV. Mountebank ·noun 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.
Wikipedia
Mountebank
Mountebank may refer to:
- A charlatan who sells phony medicines from a platform
- Monte Bank, a card game
- The Mountebanks, a comic opera by Alfred Cellier and W. S. Gilbert
Examples of use of mountebank
1. It is not hard to guess what will be the future of Japan in case the power is seized by such political mountebank who does not hesitate to lead the country to self–destruction in quest of "honor" good–for–nothing.