Definition of mountebank
English to English noun - a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes
source: WordNet 3.0 - 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.
source: Webster 1913 verb - To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.
source: Webster 1913 - To play the mountebank.
source: Webster 1913
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