English-Thai Dictionary

mountebank

N คน หลอก ขาย ยา  หมอเถื่อน  quack kon-lok-kai-ya

 

mountebank

N คน หลอกลวง  phony pretender fraud charlatan quack kon-lok-luang

 

mountebank

VT หลอกลวง  lok-luang

 

mountebankery

N การ หลอกลวง  kan-lok-luang

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MOUNTEBANK

n. 1. One who mounts a bench or state in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, vends medicines which he pretends are infallible remedies, and thus deludes the ignorant multitude. Persons of this character may be indicted and punished.
2. Any boastful and false pretender.
Nothing so impossible in nature, but mountebanks will undertake.

 

MOUNTEBANK

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

 

MOUNTEBANKERY

n.Quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

MOUNTEBANK

Mount "e *bank, n. Etym: [It. montimbanco, montambanco; montare to mount + in in, upon + banco bench. See Mount, and 4th Bank. ]

 

1. 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. Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that a mountebank. ..is preferred before an able physician. Whitlock.

 

2. Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack. Nothing so impossible in nature but mountebanks will undertake. Arbuthnot.

 

MOUNTEBANK

MOUNTEBANK Mount "e *bank, v. t.

 

Defn: To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull. [R.] Shak.

 

MOUNTEBANK

MOUNTEBANK Mount "e *bank, v. i.

 

Defn: To play the mountebank.

 

MOUNTEBANKERY

MOUNTEBANKERY Mount "e *bank `er *y, n.

 

Defn: The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.

 

MOUNTEBANKISH

MOUNTEBANKISH Mount "e *bank `ish, a.

 

Defn: Like a mountebank or his quackery. Howell.

 

MOUNTEBANKISM

MOUNTEBANKISM Mount "e *bank *ism, n.

 

Defn: The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

mountebank

moun te bank |ˈmountiˌbaNGk ˈmaʊn (t )əˌbæŋk | ▶noun a person who deceives others, esp. in order to trick them out of their money; a charlatan. • historical a person who sold patent medicines in public places. DERIVATIVES moun te bank er y |-ˌbaNGkərē |noun ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from Italian montambanco, from the imperative phrase monta in banco! ‘climb on the bench! ’ (with allusion to the raised platform used to attract an audience ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

mountebank

mountebank |ˈmaʊntɪbaŋk | ▶noun a person who deceives others, especially in order to trick them out of their money; a charlatan. • historical a person who sold patent medicines in public places. DERIVATIVES mountebankery noun ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from Italian montambanco, from the imperative phrase monta in banco! ‘climb on the bench! ’ (with allusion to the raised platform used to attract an audience ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

mountebank

mountebank noun that mountebank is going to rue the day he ever set foot in our fair town: swindler, charlatan, confidence trickster, fraud, fraudster, impostor, trickster, hoaxer; informal con man, flimflammer, snake oil salesman, sharp, grifter, bunco artist. CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD See quack . These notes show fine distinctions in meaning between closely related synonyms to help you find the best word.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

mountebank

mountebank noun swindler, charlatan, confidence trickster, confidence man, fraud, fraudster, impostor, trickster, racketeer, hoaxer, sharper, quack, rogue, villain, scoundrel; informal conman, shark, flimflammer, sharp; Brit. informal twister; N. Amer. informal grifter, bunco artist, chiseller; Austral. informal shicer, magsman, illywhacker; rare defalcator.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

mountebank

moun te bank /máʊntɪbæ̀ŋk /名詞 C ペテン師, 詐欺師 ; 山師, いかさま師 .