mountebank

n.

1. A hawker of quack medicines who attracts customers with stories, jokes, or tricks.
2. A flamboyant charlatan.

v., -banked, -bank·ing, -banks.

v.intr.
To act as a mountebank.

v.tr. Archaic
To ensnare or prevail over with trickery.

[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).]

noun

One who fakes: charlatan, fake, faker, fraud, humbug, impostor, phony, pretender, quack. See true/false.

1) a person who sells quack medicines from a platform
2) a boastful unscrupulous pretender: charlatan

Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.

The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes
  Synonym: charlatan

---

Dansk (Danish)
n. - charlatan, svindler, kvaksalver
v. intr. - være charlatan, svindler, kvaksalver
v. tr. - lokke vha. tricks etc.

Nederlands (Dutch)
kwakzalver, bedrieger, clown

Français (French)
n. - charlatan (littér)
v. intr. - faire du charlatanisme
v. tr. - faire du charlatanisme

Deutsch (German)
n. - Quacksalber, Scharlatan
v. - quacksalbern, großtun

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - αγύρτης, τσαρλατάνος

Italiano (Italian)
ciarlatano

Português (Portuguese)
n. - charlatão (m)

Русский (Russian)
шарлатан, жульничать

Español (Spanish)
n. - saltimbanqui, charlatán, farsante, embaucador
v. intr. - hacer de charlatán
v. tr. - embaucar, farsear

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - kvacksalvare, taskspelare

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
江湖郎中, 骗子, 走江湖, 行骗, 被骗

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 江湖郎中, 騙子
v. intr. - 走江湖, 行騙
v. tr. - 被騙

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 사기꾼, 돌팔이 의사
v. intr. - 가짜 약을 팔다, 사기를 치다
v. tr. -

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 大道薬売り, 芸人
v. - いんちき薬を売る, いかさまをする

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) دجال, مشعوذ‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮רמאי, ליצן, נוכל המוכר תרופות-פלא‬
v. intr. - ‮רימה‬
v. tr. - ‮פעל כרמאי‬

If you are unable to view some languages clearly, click here.

To select your translation preferences click here.