noun. A hawker of quack medicines who attracts customers with stories, jokes, or tricks.

noun. A flamboyant charlatan.

To cheat by unscrupulous and impudent arts; gull.

To introduce or insinuate by delusive arts or pretensions.

To play the mountebank: with indefinite it.

noun. A peripatetic quack; one who prescribes and sells nostrums at fairs and similar gatherings.

noun. Hence Any impudent and unscrupulous pretender; a charlatan.

noun. The short-tailed African kite, Helotarsus ecaudatus: so called from its aërial tumbling.

Pertaining to or consisting of mountebanks; sham; quack: as, a mountebank doctor.

Produced by quackery or jugglery.

transitive verb. To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.

noun. 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 infallible remedies; a quack doctor.

noun. Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.

intransitive verb. To play the mountebank.

noun. One who sells dubious medicines.

noun. One who sells by deception; a con artist; a charlatan.

verb. To act as a mountebank.

noun. a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes

"In those days, pundit would have more likely been a synonym for 'mountebank', a delicious word, which has disappeared from usage."

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