was wotd|2006|October|11
English

Pronunciation
IPA|/�ma�nt��bæ�k/
audio|en-us-mountebank.ogg|Audio (US)

Noun
en-noun

1. One who sells dubious medicines

#: There is nothing so impossible in Nature but mountebanks will undertake; nothing so incredible but they will affirm. - John Bull

1. one who sells by deception; a con artist; a charlatan.

Quotations
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Verb
en-verb

1. intransitive To act as a mountebank

#: Chide me no more. I'll mountebank their loves,<br>Cog their hearts from them, and come home beloved - Coriolanus, w:William Shakespeare|Wm. Shakespeare

Derived terms
mountebankery

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