What does "mountebank" mean?
Mountebank: Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack. Nothing so impossible in nature but mountebanks will undertake. Arbuthnot.
Additional senses
- 2.To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull. [R.] Shak.
- 3.To play the mountebank.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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