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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 jokes
Familiarity information: MOUNTEBANK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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