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mountebank - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'mountebank' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Mountebank [ n.]
- 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.
- Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
2 . Mountebank [ v. i.]
- To play the mountebank.
3 . Mountebank [ v. t.]
- To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.

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