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a person who pretends or claims to have more knowledge or skill than he or she possesses; quack.
Origin:
1595–1605; < Middle French < Italian ciarlatano, equivalent to ciarla(tore) chatterer (derivative of ciarlare to chatter; from imitative root) + (cerre)tano hawker, quack, literally, native of Cerreto, a village in Umbria, known for its quacks
1595–1605; < Middle French < Italian ciarlatano, equivalent to ciarla(tore) chatterer (derivative of ciarlare to chatter; from imitative root) + (cerre)tano hawker, quack, literally, native of Cerreto, a village in Umbria, known for its quacks
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char·la·tan·ic 
[shahr-luh-tan-ik] , char·la·tan·i·cal, char·la·tan·ish, char·la·tan·is·tic, adjective
[shahr-luh-tan-ik] , char·la·tan·i·cal, char·la·tan·ish, char·la·tan·is·tic, adjective char·la·tan·i·cal·ly, adverb
Synonyms
impostor, mountebank, fraud, fake, phony.
impostor, mountebank, fraud, fake, phony.
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Charlatan
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Word Origin & History
charlatan
1611, from It. ciarlatano "a quack," from ciarlare "to prate, babble," from ciarla "chat, prattle," perhaps imitative of ducks' quacking.
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Medical Dictionary
charlatan char·la·tan (shär'lə-tən)
n.
A person fraudulently claiming knowledge and skills not possessed.
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