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单词 saltimbanco
释义

saltimbancon.

/saltɪmˈbaŋkəʊ/
Forms: Also 1600s saltinbancho, (erron. salta-di-banco), salt'in-, 1700s saltinbanco, 1800s saltimbank (pseudo-archaic), -banque.
Etymology: Italian (= Spanish saltinbanco, -banque), < saltare to leap + in on + banco bench; whence also French saltimbanque.
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.
attributive.a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. iv. §68. 264 If..they were brought to the View of this Fellow's Saltinbanco Tricks, they would have..pined at his being such a nonjurable Rogue.

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).
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