Definition of mountebanks Mountebanks
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What does mountebanks mean?
Wiktionary 
- mountebanks (Noun)
Plural of mountebank.
Part of speech
🔤- mountebanks, verb, present, 3rd person singular of mountebank (infinitive).
- mountebanks, noun, plural of mountebank.
WordNet
NounPlural: mountebanks |
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| mountebank - a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes | ||
| charlatan | ||
| cheater, deceiver, beguiler, slicker, trickster, cheat someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | ||
| craniologist, phrenologist someone who claims to be able to read your character from the shape of your skull | ||
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Wiktionary
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- mountebank (n.)
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 infalliable remedies; a quack doctor. - mountebank (n.)
Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack. - mountebank (v. t.)
To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull. - mountebank (v. i.)
To play the mountebank.
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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mountebank
The Gammarus arcticus, or arctic shrimp.
Part of speech
🔤- mountebank, verb, present, 1st person singular of mountebank (infinitive).
- mountebank, verb (infinitive).
- mountebank, noun, singular of mountebanks.
