MOUNTEBANK

mountebank

Noun

  1. One who sells dubious medicines.
    There is nothing so impossible in Nature but mountebanks will undertake; nothing so incredible but they will affirm. - John Bull
  2. One who sells by deception; a con artist; a charlatan.

Verb

  1. To act as a mountebank.
  2. To cheat by boasting and false pretenses.
    Chide me no more. I'll mountebank their loves,
    Cog their hearts from them, and come home beloved     - Coriolanus,


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