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n. A hawker of quack medicines who attracts customers with stories, jokes, or tricks.

n. A flamboyant charlatan.

verb-intransitive. To act as a mountebank.

v. Archaic To ensnare or prevail over with trickery.

n. One who sells dubious medicines.

n. One who sells by deception; a con artist; a charlatan.

v. To act as a 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 infallible remedies; a quack doctor.

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

v. To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.

verb-intransitive. To play the mountebank.

n. A peripatetic quack; one who prescribes and sells nostrums at fairs and similar gatherings.

n. Hence Any impudent and unscrupulous pretender; a charlatan.

n. The short-tailed African kite, Helotarsus ecaudatus: so called from its aërial tumbling.

Pertaining to or consisting of mountebanks; sham; quack: as, a mountebank doctor.

Produced by quackery or jugglery.

To cheat by unscrupulous and impudent arts; gull.

To introduce or insinuate by delusive arts or pretensions.

To play the mountebank: with indefinite it.

n. a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes

"In those days, pundit would have more likely been a synonym for 'mountebank', a delicious word, which has disappeared from usage."

mountebanked    mountebanking    mountebanks   

cheat    beguiler    deceiver    trickster    slicker    cheater   

mountebank shrimp    snake oil    quack    patent medicine   

quack    phrenologist    craniologist   

mountebankery   

charlatan    quack    gull   

charlatan    impostor    showman    fortuneteller    hypocrite    quack    jackstraw    forger    schemer    imposter