mountebank

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. One who sells dubious medicines.
2. One who sells by deception; a con artist.
3. Any boastful, false pretender.
4. (obsolete) An acrobat.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To act as a mountebank.
2. (transitive) To cheat by boasting and false pretenses.

Conceptos

charlatán

curandero

embaucador

medicastro

charlatan de feria

saltabancos

Sinónimos

charlatan

quack

quacksalver

fraud

performer of tricks

phony

impostor

actor

comedian

imposter

fake doctor

mumper

acrobat

pole-dancer

antic

circulator

fake

fortune teller

hoodwinker

humbug

pretender

rogue

swindler

Traducciones

charlatan

kwakzalver

impostor

bedrieger

charlatão

curandeiro

Marktschreier

ciarlatano

Quacksalber

impostore

capadócio

αγύρτης

accaparratore

Gaukler

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈmaʊntəˌbæŋk/

Etimología (Inglés)

From archaic Italian montambanco (“quack who mounts a bench to hawk his wares”), contracted from monta-in-banco (“mount on bench”).