Word
Mountebank
How many syllables?
3 Syllables
How it's divided?
moun-te-bank
Definition
- 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.
- n. - Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
- v. t. - To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.
- v. i. - To play the mountebank.
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