Definitions
Etymologies
- From Italian saltimbanco. Used thus in English because of the association with street performers, seen by the settled population in English-speaking culture as not to be trusted. A more usual and more accurate English word, derived from similar sources, is mountebank. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“‘Becco’, and ‘cornuto’, ‘fantastico’, ‘magnifico’, ‘impress’ (the armorial device upon shields, and appearing constantly in its Italian form ‘impresa’), ‘saltimbanco’ (= mountebank), all once common enough, are now obsolete.”
“He was not the only player to do that, of course, nor even the only player in the Italy team, obviously, but he was by far the most irritating offender, primarily because even after the referee made his decisions, the gawkish saltimbanco harangued his supposed aggressor with all the righteous indignation of a nun in a knocking shop.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘saltimbanco’.
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250 Extra Spelling Words
Some more words for intermediate and advanced spellers.
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Perponyms
List of words referent to persons who commit specific crimes, or are suspected of committing those crimes, beginning with arsonist and safecracker.
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Highfalutin Hubbub
Descriptive interjections, intensifiers,sounds, smells and hullabaloo. Fanfare at its finest.
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Knee Deep in Chic
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Big Top
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
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sionnach's Words
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Not Quite The Real Thang
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flim flam, man
My Aunt once told me a story that involved some manner of con artist or sheikster or ne'er-do-well.
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The Grifters
You're on the grift, same as me.
cheater, cheat, deceiver, deluder, dissimulator, swindler, faker, fleecer, flimflammer, fraud, fraudster, hustler and 81 more...
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old but still juicy
archaic, biblical, long-unused words that are worth reviving
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rolig A calque, it would seem of mountebank (or vice versa): a benchjumper, a quack. Dec 5, 2007