mountebankn.

Brit.

/ˈmaʊntᵻbaŋk/, U.S.

/ˈmaʊn(t)əˌbæŋk/

Forms: 1500s mounterbanck, 1500s–1600s montibanck, 1500s–1600s montibancke, 1500s–1600s mountbanke, 1500s–1600s mountebancke, 1500s–1600s mountebanke, 1500s–1600s mountibanck, 1500s–1600s mountibank, 1500s–1600s mountibanke, 1600s montabanke, 1600s montebancke, 1600s montebank, 1600s montibanchi (plural), 1600s montibanco, 1600s mountabanke, 1600s mountbank, 1600s mountebanc, 1600s mountebanck, 1600s mountebanque, 1600s mowntibanck, 1600s– mountebank, 1700s mountabanck; Scottish pre-1700 montebank, pre-1700 montebanke, pre-1700 mountebanck, pre-1700 mountebancke, pre-1700 muntebank, pre-1700 muntibank, pre-1700 1700s– mountebank.

Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian montambanco.

Etymology: < Italian montambanco, montimbanco (late 17th cent.), contracted form of monta in banco (1598 in Florio), lit. ‘mount on bench’ ( < monta , imperative of montare mount v. + in on + banco bench: see bank n.²), with reference to the raised platform used by itinerant salesmen. Compare Middle French montenbancque (15th cent.). Compare saltimbanco n.Florio (1598) glosses montar' in banco (lit. ‘to mount on a bench’) as ‘to plaie the mountibanke’.

a. An itinerant charlatan who sold supposed medicines and remedies, frequently using various entertainments to attract a crowd of potential customers. Later also (more generally): an itinerant entertainer. Now chiefly historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > other performances > [noun] > other performers

disourc1330

mountebank1566

fencer1572

gladiator1621

siffleur1827

geisha1887

pole-sitter1927

stunt man1930

flagpole sitter1931

yo-yoist1933

mnemonist1969

yo-yoer1973

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > a charlatan, fraudster > [noun] > performing spectators

mountebank1566

circulator1608

1566 J. Rastell Third Bk. beware of M. Iewel sig. Aiij I may wel compare, the seeing and suffering of false and blind Teachers that now take cure of Soules, to the permitting & honouring of Mountebanks, that goe abroad with diuerse thinges for mens Bodies.

1582 G. Whetstone Heptameron Ciuill Disc. sig. Liii^v There mounted, a Mountebanke, his necke bechayned with liue Adders, Snakes, Eau'ts,..whose mortall stinges were taken away by Arte.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. I3 Poets..are almost in as good reputation, as the Mountibancks at Venice.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Kk3^v Men..will often preferre a Mountabanke or Witch, before a learned Phisitian.

1672 H. Stubbe Rosemary & Bayes 2 If you will now examine this new book, it will appear like a mountebank's ball.

1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week vi. 83 The mountebank now treads the stage, and sells His pills, his balsoms, and his ague spells.

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 24 I give Mansel credit for his invention, in propagating the report that I had a quarrel with a mountebank's merry Andrew at Gloucester.

1783 W. Beckford Dreams viii. 99 The rabble were gathered in knots round the strollers and mountebanks, singing and scaramouching in the middle of the square.

1822 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 19 Jan. 4/1 They say this town is full of cozenage; As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye,..prating mountebanks, And many such-like liberties of sin!

1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Janet's Repentance ix, in Scenes Clerical Life II. 182 Mr Try-it-on Will first pass through the streets, in procession, with his unrivalled Company, warranted to have their eyes turned up higher..than any other company of Mountebanks in this circuit!

1871 D. G. Rossetti Last Confession 502 A poor painted mountebank was playing tricks and shouting in a crowd.

1927 J. Bredon & I. Mitrophanow Moon Year xii. 394 Akin to the strolling players are the ‘Lion Dancers’ who wander from village to village. Each troupe is composed of two or three mountebanks with rude but picturesque properties.

1962 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Coll. Poems 431 We had mingled with idlers Who formed a circle Round a troupe of wretched mountebanks.

1994 Independent on Sunday 19 June (Review Suppl.) 19/3 He identifies with the mountebanks of the 18th century, the wandering performers.

b. gen. A charlatan, a person who falsely claims knowledge of or skill in some matter, esp. for personal gain; a person who pretends to be something he or she is not, in order to gain prestige, fame, etc.Formerly used frequently of corrupt clergy and others assuming false piety or religiosity.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > a charlatan, fraudster > [noun]

shondc725

faitoura1340

fob1393

trumper?c1450

feature14..

chuffera1500

prowler1519

truphane1568

cozener1575

cogger1580

pretender1583

impostor1586

mountebank1589

sycophant?1589

foolmonger1593

affronter1598

assumer1600

knight (also lord, man, etc.) of gingerbread1602

pettifogger1602

budgeter1603

quacksalver1611

empiric1614

putter-off?1615

quack1638

stafador1638

saltimbanco1646

adventurer1648

fourbe1668

shammer1677

imposer1678

charlatana1680

sham1683

cheat1687

hocus1692

gull1699

shamster1716

coal-blower1720

humbugger1752

gagger1781

fudge1794

humbug1804

potwalloper1820

twister1834

jackleg1844

fraud1850

bunyip1852

empiricist1854

Bayswater Captain1880

bluffer1888

putter-down1906

quandong1939

1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Countercuffe sig. Aiij^v To discredite the Phisitions of their soules vnto them, and to suffer euerie Martin and Mounte-bancke to practise on them.

1610 J. Boys Expos. Domin. Epist. in Wks. (1622) iii He that will not be a mountaine in Christs way, must not bee a mount-banke of his owne vertue.

1624 H. Wotton Let. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 545 Upon the Design you must play the Mountebank. And tell the Duke, that [etc.].

a1704 T. Brown Dialogue Oxf. Schollars in Wks. (1707) I. i. 3 Nature has fitted me pretty well to be one of the Godly Mountebanks.

1769 I. Bickerstaff Hypocrite i. i. 3 So many religious mountebanks impose on the unwary multitude.

1817 S. T. Coleridge Blessed are ye that Sow 24 The Mountebanks and Zanies of Patriotism.

1877 ‘Mrs. Forrester’ Mignon I. 33 One can hardly wonder at the women when the men make such asses and mountebanks of themselves.

1924 J. Buchan Three Hostages vii. 100 Medina, who had just come from the House [of Commons], was asked what was happening. ‘They had just finished the usual plat du jour, the suspension of a couple of Labour mountebanks,’ he said.

1973 Daily Tel. 9 Apr. 5 For many he [sc. Picasso] was one of the great creators of his age. To others he was at best an accomplished pasticheur and at worst a mountebank.

1998 Ambix 45 170 Within this literary tradition, false alchemists were mountebanks and cheats, whereas true alchemists were the authentic practitioners of the chemical art.

†2. Behaviour, practice, or an act characteristic of a mountebank; = mountebankery n. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [noun]

falsec1000

fraudc1330

barrat1340

faitery1377

defraudc1450

trumpery1481

covin1487

defraudationc1503

knavery1528

conveyance1531

imposture1537

defrauding1548

cozenage1583

impostry1585

catch-dolt1592

gullery1598

coggery1602

gullage1607

charlatism1611

impostury1615

quacksalvery1617

mountebankery1618

imposition1632

imposturisma1634

blaflum1637

charlatanry1638

defraudment1645

mountebankism1649

impostorya1652

impostorism1652

imposturage1654

impostery1656

mountebank1657

imposing1659

quackery1675

quackism1722

empiricism1774

cross1802

charlatanism1804

practitionery1818

cozenry1829

humbuggery1831

trick1833

thimble-shift1834

thimble-shifting1834

thimbleriggery1841

humbuggism1842

quackhood1843

quacksalverism1864

razzle-dazzle1928

spivery1948

shuck1958

shucking and jiving1969

1657 T. Aylesbury Treat. Confession of Sinne vii. 154 O Devillish Mountebanke! by which Spiritual kind of Cosenage, many are perswaded.

1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 277 As for Quackery and Mountebank, of which the Town was so full [etc.].

†3. The bateleur eagle, Terathopius ecaudatus. Also mountebank eagle. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > eagles > terathopius ecaudatus (bateleur)

bateleur eagle1864

berghaan1867

dassievanger1867

mountebank eagle1890

1890 Cent. Dict. Mountebank, the short-tailed African kite, Helotarsus ecaudatus.

1899 R. B. Woodward & J. D. S. Woodward Natal Birds 148 They have a curious habit of turning somersaults in the air like a tumbler pigeon, from which it has been called the African Mountebank eagle.

Compounds

C1.

a. Appositive, as mountebank doctor, mountebank physician, mountebank surgeon, etc.

ΚΠ

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 111 These Mount-bank Chirurgians.

1687 T. Brown Diary 3 Jan. (1898) 42 Mr. Ritchard Reidman,..a muntebank phisitiane, came to Kirkwall... Ffryday,..he..appeired upon the stage..and yr. shew furth..qt. cures he wuld perfyt.

1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 9 We saw a Crowd of People gazing at a Mountebank Doctor who made a long Harangue to them with a thousand antick Postures.

1788 J. Cobb Love in East ii. 24 A taylor! he looks more like a mountebank doctor.

1881 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 44 446 Died... Of a mountebank doctor..6.

1982 Washington Post 19 Apr. b14/5 At the..headquarters..of an unspeakable vacuum cleaner company..from which we mountebank vacuum cleaner salesmen were shot each day..there was a wonderful routine.

b. In the sense ‘of, relating to, or characteristic of a mountebank’, as mountebank mummery, mountebank politics, mountebank stage, etc.

ΚΠ

1614 S. Latham Falconry To Rdr. I could haue vsed a more mountebanque preface.

1713 A. Pope Narr. Robert Norris 24 He hath told others..that he had seen me upon a Mountebank Stage in Moorfields.

1803 Lit. Mag. Oct. 71/2 The lower orders of the people are mightily pleased with these processions and fetes, while the higher orders seem to despise them as mountebank mummery, and the foppery of republicanism.

1852 W. E. Gladstone in Edinb. Rev. Apr. 358 Theatrical, not to say charlatan and mountebank, politics.

1860 W. Collins Woman in White (new ed.) III. 304 The extraordinary mixture of prompt decision, far-sighted cunning, and mountebank bravado in this speech, staggered me for a moment.

1937 D. L. Sayers Busman's Honeymoon xvi. 328 While this poor, passionate, mountebank body has hands to hold you.

1997 Scotsman 28 July 15/5 I suspect that in ten years' time journalists will do anything to avoid covering the mountebank tedium of a platitude-uttering Scottish assembly.

C2.

† mountebank-making adj. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 46 How easily might I here digresse in Satyre against Mountebanck-making Patients.

Derivatives

ˈmountebankish adj. worthy of a mountebank; characteristic of a mountebank.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > a charlatan, fraudster > [adjective]

fraudulentc1430

fraudelous1483

impostorous?1549

empirical1588

quacksalving1607

imposterous1611

imposturous1611

impostrous1612

impostorious1623

mountebankish1660

jackleg1833

jack-legged1839

sharkish1844

spivvy1945

spivvish1948

1660 J. Howell Θηρολογια 87 A Saturnian Merchant..whom..for som Hocos-pocos and Mountebankish tricks I transformed to a Fox.

1996 J. Lanchester Debt to Pleasure (1997) 66 My brother, in his mountebankish way, would claim to be felled in his tracks by a seasonal migraine.

mountebank-like adv. in the manner of a mountebank.

ΚΠ

1630 P. Massinger Picture Ep. Ded. sig. A3 I had rather inioy (as I haue donne) the reall proofes of their friendship, then mountebancke like boast their numbers in a Catalogue.

1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. iii. 70 They were counted the best and wisest Men, who, Mountebank like, could show most Tricks.

1934 Fortnightly Rev. Feb. 133 In no case has the writer, mountebank-like, made a jest of moral misadventures.

† mountebankly adv. Obsolete rare after the manner of a mountebank.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [adverb]

fraudulently1474

fraudfullyc1480

fraudelously1481

knavishly1481

overreachingly1571

cozeningly1611

mountebankly1619

quacksalvingly1652

imposterously1657

sharkingly1659

upon the sham1689

on the cross1802

quackishly1816

1619 S. Purchas Microcosmus lviii. 562 Nature, by some Naturalists hath beene too Mounte-bankly magnified.

1811 Morning Chron. 6 May Harris and Kemble..have most mummingly and mountebankly introduced divers horses, tumblers, rope-dancers, and fire-eaters, on the stage.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† mountebankv.

Forms: 1600s mountebanke, 1700s–1800s mountebank.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mountebank n.

Etymology: < mountebank n. Compare later mountebanking n., earlier mountebanking adj.

Obsolete.

1. transitive. To master or prevail over (a person) by persuasion characteristic of a mountebank. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > treat fraudulently, cheat [verb (transitive)]

deceivec1330

defraud1362

falsec1374

abuse?a1439

fraud1563

visure1570

cozen1583

coney-catch1592

to fetch in1592

cheat1597

sell1607

mountebanka1616

dabc1616

nigglea1625

to put it on1625

shuffle1627

cuckold1644

to put a cheat on1649

tonya1652

fourbe1654

imposturea1659

impose1662

slur1664

knap1665

to pass upon (also on)1673

snub1694

ferret1699

nab1706

shool1745

humbug1750

gag1777

gudgeon1787

kid1811

bronze1817

honeyfuggle1829

Yankee1837

middle1863

fuck1866

fake1867

skunk1867

dead-beat1888

gold-brick1893

slicker1897

screw1900

to play it1901

to do in1906

game1907

gaff1934

scalp1939

sucker1939

sheg1943

swizz1961

butt-fuck1979

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iii. ii. 132 Ile Mountebanke their Loues, Cogge their Hearts from them, and come home belou'd Of all the Trades in Rome.

1702 D. Defoe Reformation of Manners i. 124 With Eloquence endu'd To Mountebank the listning Multitude.

2. transitive. To introduce by mountebank methods; to transform by mountebank trickery. rare.

ΚΠ

1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 2 Men of Paracelsian parts..are fittest to Mountebanke his [sc. Satan's] Chimistry into sicke Churches and weake Judgements.

1702 D. Defoe Reformation of Manners i. 316 The wondring Bubbles stand amaz'd to see Their Money Mountebank'd to Mercury.

3. intransitive. To behave as a mountebank, to play the mountebank. Also transitive with it. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > act fraudulently, cheat [verb (intransitive)]

faitc1330

defraudc1384

to take (the) advantagea1393

false1393

halt1412

haft1519

juggle1528

wily beguile1550

foist1584

lurch1593

fog1621

imposture1624

rook1637

impone1640

cheat1647

chicane1671

humbug1753

fineer1765

gag1781

mountebank1814

jockeya1835

sniggle1837

barney1848

straw1851

honeyfuggle1856

skinch1891

finagle1926

1814 Ld. Byron Let. 9 Apr. (1975) IV. 92 I..will mountebank it no longer.

1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. ii. v. 88 Say if 'tis wise to..mountebank it in the public ways Till she becomes a jest?

1882 R. L. Stevenson New Arabian Nights II. 195 I find you mountebanking in a public café.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	mountebank
释义	mountebankn. Brit. /ˈmaʊntᵻbaŋk/, U.S. /ˈmaʊn(t)əˌbæŋk/ Forms: 1500s mounterbanck, 1500s–1600s montibanck, 1500s–1600s montibancke, 1500s–1600s mountbanke, 1500s–1600s mountebancke, 1500s–1600s mountebanke, 1500s–1600s mountibanck, 1500s–1600s mountibank, 1500s–1600s mountibanke, 1600s montabanke, 1600s montebancke, 1600s montebank, 1600s montibanchi (plural), 1600s montibanco, 1600s mountabanke, 1600s mountbank, 1600s mountebanc, 1600s mountebanck, 1600s mountebanque, 1600s mowntibanck, 1600s– mountebank, 1700s mountabanck; Scottish pre-1700 montebank, pre-1700 montebanke, pre-1700 mountebanck, pre-1700 mountebancke, pre-1700 muntebank, pre-1700 muntibank, pre-1700 1700s– mountebank. Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian montambanco. Etymology: < Italian montambanco, montimbanco (late 17th cent.), contracted form of monta in banco (1598 in Florio), lit. ‘mount on bench’ ( < monta , imperative of montare mount v. + in on + banco bench: see bank n.²), with reference to the raised platform used by itinerant salesmen. Compare Middle French montenbancque (15th cent.). Compare saltimbanco n.Florio (1598) glosses montar' in banco (lit. ‘to mount on a bench’) as ‘to plaie the mountibanke’. 1. a. An itinerant charlatan who sold supposed medicines and remedies, frequently using various entertainments to attract a crowd of potential customers. Later also (more generally): an itinerant entertainer. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > other performances > [noun] > other performers disourc1330 mountebank1566 fencer1572 gladiator1621 siffleur1827 geisha1887 pole-sitter1927 stunt man1930 flagpole sitter1931 yo-yoist1933 mnemonist1969 yo-yoer1973 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > a charlatan, fraudster > [noun] > performing spectators mountebank1566 circulator1608 1566 J. Rastell Third Bk. beware of M. Iewel sig. Aiij I may wel compare, the seeing and suffering of false and blind Teachers that now take cure of Soules, to the permitting & honouring of Mountebanks, that goe abroad with diuerse thinges for mens Bodies. 1582 G. Whetstone Heptameron Ciuill Disc. sig. Liii^v There mounted, a Mountebanke, his necke bechayned with liue Adders, Snakes, Eau'ts,..whose mortall stinges were taken away by Arte. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. I3 Poets..are almost in as good reputation, as the Mountibancks at Venice. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Kk3^v Men..will often preferre a Mountabanke or Witch, before a learned Phisitian. View more context for this quotation 1672 H. Stubbe Rosemary & Bayes 2 If you will now examine this new book, it will appear like a mountebank's ball. 1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week vi. 83 The mountebank now treads the stage, and sells His pills, his balsoms, and his ague spells. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 24 I give Mansel credit for his invention, in propagating the report that I had a quarrel with a mountebank's merry Andrew at Gloucester. 1783 W. Beckford Dreams viii. 99 The rabble were gathered in knots round the strollers and mountebanks, singing and scaramouching in the middle of the square. 1822 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 19 Jan. 4/1 They say this town is full of cozenage; As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye,..prating mountebanks, And many such-like liberties of sin! 1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Janet's Repentance ix, in Scenes Clerical Life II. 182 Mr Try-it-on Will first pass through the streets, in procession, with his unrivalled Company, warranted to have their eyes turned up higher..than any other company of Mountebanks in this circuit! 1871 D. G. Rossetti Last Confession 502 A poor painted mountebank was playing tricks and shouting in a crowd. 1927 J. Bredon & I. Mitrophanow Moon Year xii. 394 Akin to the strolling players are the ‘Lion Dancers’ who wander from village to village. Each troupe is composed of two or three mountebanks with rude but picturesque properties. 1962 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Coll. Poems 431 We had mingled with idlers Who formed a circle Round a troupe of wretched mountebanks. 1994 Independent on Sunday 19 June (Review Suppl.) 19/3 He identifies with the mountebanks of the 18th century, the wandering performers. b. gen. A charlatan, a person who falsely claims knowledge of or skill in some matter, esp. for personal gain; a person who pretends to be something he or she is not, in order to gain prestige, fame, etc.Formerly used frequently of corrupt clergy and others assuming false piety or religiosity. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > a charlatan, fraudster > [noun] shondc725 faitoura1340 fob1393 trumper?c1450 feature14.. chuffera1500 prowler1519 truphane1568 cozener1575 cogger1580 pretender1583 impostor1586 mountebank1589 sycophant?1589 foolmonger1593 affronter1598 assumer1600 knight (also lord, man, etc.) of gingerbread1602 pettifogger1602 budgeter1603 quacksalver1611 empiric1614 putter-off?1615 quack1638 stafador1638 saltimbanco1646 adventurer1648 fourbe1668 shammer1677 imposer1678 charlatana1680 sham1683 cheat1687 hocus1692 gull1699 shamster1716 coal-blower1720 humbugger1752 gagger1781 fudge1794 humbug1804 potwalloper1820 twister1834 jackleg1844 fraud1850 bunyip1852 empiricist1854 Bayswater Captain1880 bluffer1888 putter-down1906 quandong1939 1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Countercuffe sig. Aiij^v To discredite the Phisitions of their soules vnto them, and to suffer euerie Martin and Mounte-bancke to practise on them. 1610 J. Boys Expos. Domin. Epist. in Wks. (1622) iii He that will not be a mountaine in Christs way, must not bee a mount-banke of his owne vertue. 1624 H. Wotton Let. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 545 Upon the Design you must play the Mountebank. And tell the Duke, that [etc.]. a1704 T. Brown Dialogue Oxf. Schollars in Wks. (1707) I. i. 3 Nature has fitted me pretty well to be one of the Godly Mountebanks. 1769 I. Bickerstaff Hypocrite i. i. 3 So many religious mountebanks impose on the unwary multitude. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Blessed are ye that Sow 24 The Mountebanks and Zanies of Patriotism. 1877 ‘Mrs. Forrester’ Mignon I. 33 One can hardly wonder at the women when the men make such asses and mountebanks of themselves. 1924 J. Buchan Three Hostages vii. 100 Medina, who had just come from the House [of Commons], was asked what was happening. ‘They had just finished the usual plat du jour, the suspension of a couple of Labour mountebanks,’ he said. 1973 Daily Tel. 9 Apr. 5 For many he [sc. Picasso] was one of the great creators of his age. To others he was at best an accomplished pasticheur and at worst a mountebank. 1998 Ambix 45 170 Within this literary tradition, false alchemists were mountebanks and cheats, whereas true alchemists were the authentic practitioners of the chemical art. †2. Behaviour, practice, or an act characteristic of a mountebank; = mountebankery n. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [noun] falsec1000 fraudc1330 barrat1340 faitery1377 defraudc1450 trumpery1481 covin1487 defraudationc1503 knavery1528 conveyance1531 imposture1537 defrauding1548 cozenage1583 impostry1585 catch-dolt1592 gullery1598 coggery1602 gullage1607 charlatism1611 impostury1615 quacksalvery1617 mountebankery1618 imposition1632 imposturisma1634 blaflum1637 charlatanry1638 defraudment1645 mountebankism1649 impostorya1652 impostorism1652 imposturage1654 impostery1656 mountebank1657 imposing1659 quackery1675 quackism1722 empiricism1774 cross1802 charlatanism1804 practitionery1818 cozenry1829 humbuggery1831 trick1833 thimble-shift1834 thimble-shifting1834 thimbleriggery1841 humbuggism1842 quackhood1843 quacksalverism1864 razzle-dazzle1928 spivery1948 shuck1958 shucking and jiving1969 1657 T. Aylesbury Treat. Confession of Sinne vii. 154 O Devillish Mountebanke! by which Spiritual kind of Cosenage, many are perswaded. 1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 277 As for Quackery and Mountebank, of which the Town was so full [etc.]. †3. The bateleur eagle, Terathopius ecaudatus. Also mountebank eagle. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > eagles > terathopius ecaudatus (bateleur) bateleur eagle1864 berghaan1867 dassievanger1867 mountebank eagle1890 1890 Cent. Dict. Mountebank, the short-tailed African kite, Helotarsus ecaudatus. 1899 R. B. Woodward & J. D. S. Woodward Natal Birds 148 They have a curious habit of turning somersaults in the air like a tumbler pigeon, from which it has been called the African Mountebank eagle. Compounds C1. a. Appositive, as mountebank doctor, mountebank physician, mountebank surgeon, etc. ΚΠ 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 111 These Mount-bank Chirurgians. 1687 T. Brown Diary 3 Jan. (1898) 42 Mr. Ritchard Reidman,..a muntebank phisitiane, came to Kirkwall... Ffryday,..he..appeired upon the stage..and yr. shew furth..qt. cures he wuld perfyt. 1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 9 We saw a Crowd of People gazing at a Mountebank Doctor who made a long Harangue to them with a thousand antick Postures. 1788 J. Cobb Love in East ii. 24 A taylor! he looks more like a mountebank doctor. 1881 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 44 446 Died... Of a mountebank doctor..6. 1982 Washington Post 19 Apr. b14/5 At the..headquarters..of an unspeakable vacuum cleaner company..from which we mountebank vacuum cleaner salesmen were shot each day..there was a wonderful routine. b. In the sense ‘of, relating to, or characteristic of a mountebank’, as mountebank mummery, mountebank politics, mountebank stage, etc. ΚΠ 1614 S. Latham Falconry To Rdr. I could haue vsed a more mountebanque preface. 1713 A. Pope Narr. Robert Norris 24 He hath told others..that he had seen me upon a Mountebank Stage in Moorfields. 1803 Lit. Mag. Oct. 71/2 The lower orders of the people are mightily pleased with these processions and fetes, while the higher orders seem to despise them as mountebank mummery, and the foppery of republicanism. 1852 W. E. Gladstone in Edinb. Rev. Apr. 358 Theatrical, not to say charlatan and mountebank, politics. 1860 W. Collins Woman in White (new ed.) III. 304 The extraordinary mixture of prompt decision, far-sighted cunning, and mountebank bravado in this speech, staggered me for a moment. 1937 D. L. Sayers Busman's Honeymoon xvi. 328 While this poor, passionate, mountebank body has hands to hold you. 1997 Scotsman 28 July 15/5 I suspect that in ten years' time journalists will do anything to avoid covering the mountebank tedium of a platitude-uttering Scottish assembly. C2. † mountebank-making adj. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 46 How easily might I here digresse in Satyre against Mountebanck-making Patients. Derivatives ˈmountebankish adj. worthy of a mountebank; characteristic of a mountebank. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > a charlatan, fraudster > [adjective] fraudulentc1430 fraudelous1483 impostorous?1549 empirical1588 quacksalving1607 imposterous1611 imposturous1611 impostrous1612 impostorious1623 mountebankish1660 jackleg1833 jack-legged1839 sharkish1844 spivvy1945 spivvish1948 1660 J. Howell Θηρολογια 87 A Saturnian Merchant..whom..for som Hocos-pocos and Mountebankish tricks I transformed to a Fox. 1996 J. Lanchester Debt to Pleasure (1997) 66 My brother, in his mountebankish way, would claim to be felled in his tracks by a seasonal migraine. mountebank-like adv. in the manner of a mountebank. ΚΠ 1630 P. Massinger Picture Ep. Ded. sig. A3 I had rather inioy (as I haue donne) the reall proofes of their friendship, then mountebancke like boast their numbers in a Catalogue. 1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. iii. 70 They were counted the best and wisest Men, who, Mountebank like, could show most Tricks. 1934 Fortnightly Rev. Feb. 133 In no case has the writer, mountebank-like, made a jest of moral misadventures. † mountebankly adv. Obsolete rare after the manner of a mountebank. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [adverb] fraudulently1474 fraudfullyc1480 fraudelously1481 knavishly1481 overreachingly1571 cozeningly1611 mountebankly1619 quacksalvingly1652 imposterously1657 sharkingly1659 upon the sham1689 on the cross1802 quackishly1816 1619 S. Purchas Microcosmus lviii. 562 Nature, by some Naturalists hath beene too Mounte-bankly magnified. 1811 Morning Chron. 6 May Harris and Kemble..have most mummingly and mountebankly introduced divers horses, tumblers, rope-dancers, and fire-eaters, on the stage. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † mountebankv. Forms: 1600s mountebanke, 1700s–1800s mountebank. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mountebank n. Etymology: < mountebank n. Compare later mountebanking n., earlier mountebanking adj. Obsolete. 1. transitive. To master or prevail over (a person) by persuasion characteristic of a mountebank. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > treat fraudulently, cheat [verb (transitive)] deceivec1330 defraud1362 falsec1374 abuse?a1439 fraud1563 visure1570 cozen1583 coney-catch1592 to fetch in1592 cheat1597 sell1607 mountebanka1616 dabc1616 nigglea1625 to put it on1625 shuffle1627 cuckold1644 to put a cheat on1649 tonya1652 fourbe1654 imposturea1659 impose1662 slur1664 knap1665 to pass upon (also on)1673 snub1694 ferret1699 nab1706 shool1745 humbug1750 gag1777 gudgeon1787 kid1811 bronze1817 honeyfuggle1829 Yankee1837 middle1863 fuck1866 fake1867 skunk1867 dead-beat1888 gold-brick1893 slicker1897 screw1900 to play it1901 to do in1906 game1907 gaff1934 scalp1939 sucker1939 sheg1943 swizz1961 butt-fuck1979 a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iii. ii. 132 Ile Mountebanke their Loues, Cogge their Hearts from them, and come home belou'd Of all the Trades in Rome. View more context for this quotation 1702 D. Defoe Reformation of Manners i. 124 With Eloquence endu'd To Mountebank the listning Multitude. 2. transitive. To introduce by mountebank methods; to transform by mountebank trickery. rare. ΚΠ 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 2 Men of Paracelsian parts..are fittest to Mountebanke his [sc. Satan's] Chimistry into sicke Churches and weake Judgements. 1702 D. Defoe Reformation of Manners i. 316 The wondring Bubbles stand amaz'd to see Their Money Mountebank'd to Mercury. 3. intransitive. To behave as a mountebank, to play the mountebank. Also transitive with it. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > act fraudulently, cheat [verb (intransitive)] faitc1330 defraudc1384 to take (the) advantagea1393 false1393 halt1412 haft1519 juggle1528 wily beguile1550 foist1584 lurch1593 fog1621 imposture1624 rook1637 impone1640 cheat1647 chicane1671 humbug1753 fineer1765 gag1781 mountebank1814 jockeya1835 sniggle1837 barney1848 straw1851 honeyfuggle1856 skinch1891 finagle1926 1814 Ld. Byron Let. 9 Apr. (1975) IV. 92 I..will mountebank it no longer. 1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. ii. v. 88 Say if 'tis wise to..mountebank it in the public ways Till she becomes a jest? 1882 R. L. Stevenson New Arabian Nights II. 195 I find you mountebanking in a public café. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1566v.a1616
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