Word Meaning

mountebank definition and meaning

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.
n. Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
v. t. To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.
v. i. To play the mountebank.