mountebank

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  1. noun A hawker of quack medicines who attracts customers with stories, jokes, or tricks.
  2. noun A flamboyant charlatan.
  3. intransitive verb To act as a mountebank.

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charlatan ·  impostor ·  showman ·  fortune-teller ·  hypocrite ·  quack ·  jackstraw ·  forger ·  schemer ·  imposter ·  juggler ·  trickster
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  1. Italian montambanco, from the phrase monta im banco, one gets up onto the bench : monta, one gets up, third person sing. present tense of montare, to get up (from Vulgar Latin *montāre; see mount1) + in, on, onto (from Latin; see in-2) + banco, bench (variant of banca, from Old Italian, bench, table, from Old High German bank).

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  1. Formerly also mountibank; from Italian montambanco, montimbanco, earlier monta in banco (Florio), a mountebank, from montar' in banco, play the mountebank (Florio), literally mount on a bench: montare, mount; in, on; banco, bench: see mount, in, bank, bench. Cf. saltimbanco.
  2. from mountebank, n.
 

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/ˈmaʊntəbæŋk/
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