单词 | saltimbanco |
释义 | saltimbancon. A mountebank; a quack. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > a charlatan, fraudster > [noun] shondc725 faitoura1340 fob1393 trumper?c1450 feature14.. chuffera1500 prowler1519 truphane1568 cozener1575 cogger1580 pretender1583 impostor1586 mountebank1589 sycophant?1589 foolmonger1593 affronter1598 assumer1600 knight (also lord, man, etc.) of gingerbread1602 pettifogger1602 budgeter1603 quacksalver1611 empiric1614 putter-off?1615 quack1638 stafador1638 saltimbanco1646 adventurer1648 fourbe1668 shammer1677 imposer1678 charlatana1680 sham1683 cheat1687 hocus1692 gull1699 shamster1716 coal-blower1720 humbugger1752 gagger1781 fudge1794 humbug1804 potwalloper1820 twister1834 jackleg1844 fraud1850 bunyip1852 empiricist1854 Bayswater Captain1880 bluffer1888 putter-down1906 quandong1939 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. iii. 11 Saltimbancoes, Quacksalvers, and Charlatans. View more context for this quotation 1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 203 He play'd the Saltinbancoo's part, Transform'd t'a Frenchman by my Art. 1675 C. Cotton Burlesque upon Burlesque 114 An Archer, Fidler, Poetaster, A kind of Salt'in-banco too. 1675 A. Huyberts Corner-stone 15 No more than what may serve the Salta-di-Banco's upon a Stage. 1850 G. P. R. James Old Oak Chest I. 125 To make the contortions of their ‘Saltimbanks’, and ‘tomblesteres’ act as a sort of argument or introduction to what was to follow. 1865 G. A. Sala My Diary in Amer. I. 368 Those..marchands forains, saltimbanques and buffoons, who in Europe are afoot on every holiday. Derivatives saltimˈbanquism n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > a charlatan, fraudster > [noun] > character or condition of faitourc1500 impostureship1608 impostorship1620 fraudulency1857 saltimbanquism1861 1861 Temple Bar 2 508 That gorgeous temple of saltimbanquism in Leicester Square [sc. the Alhambra]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1646 |
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