Found 3 items, similar to mountebank.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: mountebank penipu
English → English (WordNet) Definition: mountebank mountebank n : a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes [syn: charlatan]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Mountebank Mountebank \Mount"e*bank\, v. t. To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull. [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] Mountebank \Mount"e*bank\, v. i. To play the mountebank. [1913 Webster] Mountebank \Mount"e*bank\, n. [It. montimbanco, montambanco; montare to mount + in in, upon + banco bench. See Mount, and 4th Bank.] 1. 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 infallible remedies; a quack doctor. [1913 Webster] Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that a mountebank . . . is preferred before an able physician. --Whitlock. [1913 Webster] 2. Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack. [1913 Webster] Nothing so impossible in nature but mountebanks will undertake. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]