Word Meaning

Meaning of mountebank

- 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 infalliable remedies; a quack doctor.
- Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
- To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.
- To play the mountebank.