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mountebank

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noun

moun·​te·​bank ˈmau̇n-ti-ˌbaŋk How to pronounce mountebank (audio)
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: a person who sells quack medicines from a platform
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: a boastful unscrupulous pretender : charlatan
mountebankery noun

mountebank

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verb

mountebanked; mountebanking; mountebanks

transitive verb

obsolete : to beguile or transform by trickery
I'll mountebank their loves William Shakespeare

intransitive verb

obsolete : to play the mountebank

Did you know?

Mountebank derives from the Italian montimbanco, which was formed by combining the verb "montare" ("to mount"), the preposition "in" (converted to im, meaning "in" or "on"), and the noun "banco" ("bench"). Put these components together and you can deduce the literal origins of "mountebank" as someone mounted on a bench - the "bench" being the platform on which charlatans from the 16th and 17th centuries would stand to sell their phony medicines. Mountebanks often included various forms of light entertainment on stage in order to attract customers. Later, extended uses of "mountebank" referred to someone who falsely claims to have knowledge about a particular subject or a person who simply pretends to be something he or she is not in order to gain attention.

Example Sentences

Noun a gang of swindlers and mountebanks claimed that many doctors were frauds and mountebanks
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Or does the word seem a little shifty, denoting a modern-day mountebank (another great word), bent on self-promotion, unscrupulous precisely because no special degree is required? Will Jeakle, Forbes, 29 June 2021 American politicians, the pusillanimous and the mountebanks and even their opposites, used to be as highfalutin as Foghorn Leghorn with their gibes, which made politics fun for fans of Shakespeare, the Bible or obscure history. oregonlive, 31 Mar. 2020 He was ignored on almost every major issue by the incredible cast of fools and mountebanks with whom the president* has surrounded himself. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 13 Mar. 2018 Laying it off on senior administration officials will no longer fly given the liars, hustlers, incompetents, poseurs and mountebanks who dominate this West Wing. David Zurawik, baltimoresun.com, 9 Mar. 2018 The Presidency has hardly been free of mountebanks and worse. David Remnick, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2017

Word History

Etymology

Noun

Italian montimbanco, from montare to mount + in in, on + banco, banca bench

First Known Use

Noun

1566, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb

circa 1616, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

Time Traveler
The first known use of mountebank was in 1566

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