mountebank
Kelime Anlamı :
1. şarlatan kimse.
2. şarlatan.
3. şarlatanlıkla sahte ilâç satan kimse.
4. sarlatan satici.
5. (isim) şarlatan.
6. şarlatan satıcı.
Tanımlar :
1.
A hawker of quack medicines who attracts customers with stories, jokes, or tricks.
2. A flamboyant charlatan.
3. to act as a mountebank.
4. archaic to ensnare or prevail over with trickery.
2. A flamboyant charlatan.
3. to act as a mountebank.
4. archaic to ensnare or prevail over with trickery.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1.
one who sells dubious medicines.
2. one who sells by deception; a con artist; a charlatan.
3. to act as a mountebank.
2. one who sells by deception; a con artist; a charlatan.
3. to act as a mountebank.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1.
one who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infallible remedies; a quack doctor.
2. any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
3. to play the mountebank.
4. to cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.
2. any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
3. to play the mountebank.
4. to cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1.
A peripatetic quack; one who prescribes and sells nostrums at fairs and similar gatherings.
2. hence any impudent and unscrupulous pretender; a charlatan.
3. the short-tailed african kite, Helotarsus ecaudatus: so called from its aërial tumbling.
4. pertaining to or consisting of mountebanks; sham; quack: as, a mountebank doctor.
5. produced by quackery or jugglery.
6. to cheat by unscrupulous and impudent arts; gull.
7. to introduce or insinuate by delusive arts or pretensions.
8. to play the mountebank: with indefinite it.
2. hence any impudent and unscrupulous pretender; a charlatan.
3. the short-tailed african kite, Helotarsus ecaudatus: so called from its aërial tumbling.
4. pertaining to or consisting of mountebanks; sham; quack: as, a mountebank doctor.
5. produced by quackery or jugglery.
6. to cheat by unscrupulous and impudent arts; gull.
7. to introduce or insinuate by delusive arts or pretensions.
8. to play the mountebank: with indefinite it.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia