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MOUNTEBANK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mountebank mean? 

MOUNTEBANK (noun)
  The noun MOUNTEBANK has 1 sense:

1. a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokesplay

  Familiarity information: MOUNTEBANK used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MOUNTEBANK (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

charlatan; mountebank

Hypernyms ("mountebank" is a kind of...):

beguiler; cheat; cheater; deceiver; slicker; trickster (someone who leads you to believe something that is not true)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mountebank"):

craniologist; phrenologist (someone who claims to be able to read your character from the shape of your skull)

quack (an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice)


 Context examples 


My employer, ma'am—Mr. Heep—once did me the favour to observe to me, that if I were not in the receipt of the stipendiary emoluments appertaining to my engagement with him, I should probably be a mountebank about the country, swallowing a sword-blade, and eating the devouring element.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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