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mountebank n. 江湖郎中,骗子 江湖郎中,骗子 mountebank n 1: a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes [ synonym: { mountebank}, { charlatan}] Mountebank \ Mount" e* bank\, v. t. To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull. [ R.] -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster]
Mountebank \ Mount" e* bank\, v. i. To play the mountebank. [ 1913 Webster]
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] 65 Moby Thesaurus words for " mountebank": 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
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