'Mountebank' definitions:
Definition of 'mountebank'
(from WordNet)
noun
A flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes [syn: mountebank, charlatan]
Definition of 'Mountebank'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that a mountebank . . . is preferred before an able physician. --Whitlock. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack. [1913 Webster]
- Nothing so impossible in nature but mountebanks will undertake. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Mountebank'
From: GCIDE
- Mountebank \Mount"e*bank\, v. t. To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull. [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Mountebank'
From: GCIDE
- Mountebank \Mount"e*bank\, v. i. To play the mountebank. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'mountebank'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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