mountebank

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

impostore

accaparratore

ciarlatano

cantimbanco

saltimbanco

saltambanco

cantambanco

sinonimi

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

Traduzioni

charlatan

charlatán

kwakzalver

curandeiro

impostor

αγύρτης

capadócio

Marktschreier

Quacksalber

bedrieger

charlatão

Gaukler

τσαρλατάνος

Schwindler

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈmaʊntəˌbæŋk/

Etimologia (Inglese)

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