单词 | charlatan |
释义 | charlatan —charlatanic /shahr'leuh tan"ik/, charlatanical, charlatanish, charlatanistic, adj. —charlatanically, adv. /shahr"leuh tn/, n. a person who pretends to more knowledge or skill than he or she possesses; quack. [1595-1605; < MF < It ciarlatano, equiv. to ciarla(tore) chatterer (deriv. of ciarlare to chatter; from imit. root) + (cerre)tano hawker, quack, lit., native of Cerreto, a village in Umbria, known for its quacks] Syn. impostor, mountebank, fraud, fake, phony. |
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