Meaning of Mountebank

English Translation from English to English dictionary online for the word Mountebank

1. 1
   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.

2. 2
   n.

   Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.

3. 3
   v. t.

   To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.

4. 4
   v. i.

   To play the mountebank.

5. 5
   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.

6. 6
   n.

   Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.

7. 7
   v. t.

   To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.

8. 8
   v. i.

   To play the mountebank.