mountebank
noun
1. a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes
Similar word(s): charlatan
Definition categories: person, beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster
Sentences with mountebank as a noun:
- There is nothing so impossible in Nature but mountebanks will undertake; nothing so incredible but they will affirm. - John Bull
verb
1. (intransitive) To act as a mountebank.
2. (transitive) To cheat by boasting and false pretenses.
- Chide me no more. I'll mountebank their loves,r /> Cog their hearts from them, and come home beloved - Coriolanus, Wm. Shakespeare