mountebank

/moun-tuh-bangk/US // ˈmaʊn təˌbæŋk //UK // (ˈmaʊntɪˌbæŋk) //

山口银行,山地银行,山庄,山口组

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a person who sells quack medicines, as from a platform in public places, attracting and influencing an audience by tricks, storytelling, etc.
- : any charlatan or quack.

v.无主动词 verb

nouncharlatan

Synonyms

William Read died; originally a cobbler, became a mountebank, and practiced medicine by the light of nature!
Surely, if one such mountebank can cheer her thus, she shall be fed on white magic each day.
I'm better than a young mountebank—I've vanity enough to say that.
For my gibbosities tickled the taste of a travelling mountebank.
I have really, then, the vastly prodigious honour to be exalted in your fair graces to the level of a mountebank?