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mountebank
[ moun-tuh-bangk ]
mountebank
/ ˈmaʊntɪˌbæŋk /
noun
- (formerly) a person who sold quack medicines in public places
- a charlatan; fake
verb
- intr to play the mountebank
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Derived Forms
- ˌmounteˈbankery, noun
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Other Words From
- moun·te·bank·er·y [moun, -t, uh, -bangk-, uh, -ree], noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mountebank1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mountebank1
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Example Sentences
William Read died; originally a cobbler, became a mountebank, and practiced medicine by the light of nature!
Surely, if one such mountebank can cheer her thus, she shall be fed on white magic each day.
I'm better than a young mountebank—I've vanity enough to say that.
For my gibbosities tickled the taste of a travelling mountebank.
I have really, then, the vastly prodigious honour to be exalted in your fair graces to the level of a mountebank?
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