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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024moun•te•bank /ˈmaʊntəˌbæŋk/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a person who tries to fool or deceive people.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024moun•te•bank (moun′tə bangk′),USA pronunciation n. - 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.i. - to act or operate as a mountebank.
- Italian montimbanco one who climbs on a bench, equivalent. to mont(are) to climb (see mount1) + -im-, variant of in on + banco bench (see bank2)
- Middle French)
- 1570–80; (
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged pitchman.
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged phony, pretender, fraud.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: mountebank /ˈmaʊntɪˌbæŋk/ n - (formerly) a person who sold quack medicines in public places
- a charlatan; fake
vb - (intransitive) to play the mountebank
Etymology: 16th Century: from Italian montambanco a climber on a bench, from montare to mount² + banco bench (see also bank1)ˌmounteˈbankery n |