mountebank
n . 江湖郎中,骗子
江湖郎中,骗子
mountebank n 1 :
a flamboyant deceiver ;
one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes [
synonym : {
mountebank }, {
charlatan }]
Mountebank \
Mount "
e *
bank \,
v .
t .
To cheat by boasting and false pretenses ;
to gull . [
R .]
--
Shak .
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Mountebank \
Mount "
e *
bank \,
v .
i .
To play the mountebank .
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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 infallible remedies ;
a quack doctor .
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Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men ,
that a mountebank . . .
is preferred before an able physician . --
Whitlock .
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2 .
Any boastful or false pretender ;
a charlatan ;
a quack .
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Nothing so impossible in nature but mountebanks will undertake . --
Arbuthnot .
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65 Moby Thesaurus words for "
mountebank ":
artist ,
artiste ,
belly dancer ,
blagueur ,
bluff ,
bluffer ,
burlesque queen ,
charlatan ,
cheat ,
chorine ,
chorus boy ,
chorus girl ,
con man ,
confidence man ,
conjurer ,
coryphee ,
dancer ,
dancing girl ,
defrauder ,
ecdysiast ,
entertainer ,
exotic dancer ,
fake ,
faker ,
female impersonator ,
flimflammer ,
fourflusher ,
fraud ,
geisha ,
geisha girl ,
guisard ,
guiser ,
gyp ,
hoofer ,
humbug ,
impersonator ,
impostor ,
magician ,
malingerer ,
mummer ,
musician ,
nautch girl ,
peeler ,
performer ,
phony ,
poser ,
poseur ,
prestidigitator ,
pretender ,
public entertainer ,
quack ,
quacksalver ,
quackster ,
ringer ,
saltimbanco ,
sham ,
shammer ,
sharper ,
show girl ,
singer ,
stripper ,
stripteaser ,
stripteuse ,
vaudevillian ,
vaudevillist
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