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 infalliable remedies; a quack doctor.
Mountebank(n.)
- Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
Mountebank(v. t.)
- To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.