英语词汇“mountebank”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	mountebank
释义	moun·te·bank I. \ˈmau̇ntəˌbaŋk, -aiŋk\ noun (-s) Etymology: Italian montambanco, montimbanco, from montare to mount, climb (from — assumed — Vulgar Latin) + in in, on (from Latin) + banco, banca bench — more at mount, in, bank 1. a. : an itinerant hawker of pills and patent medicines : pitchman, quack < bought an unction of a mountebank — Shakespeare > b. : an entertainer (as a juggler or magician) employed by a quack to attract a crowd < three or four mountebanks … manipulated their blue and yellow lion — Nora Waln > 2. : a pretender to competence or knowledge : charlatan, swindler < almost all politicians were frauds and mountebanks — J.T.Farrell > II. transitive verb obsolete : to beguile or transform by trickery < I'll mountebank their loves — Shakespeare > < amazed to see their money mountebanked to mercury — Daniel Defoe > *intransitive verb* : to play the mountebank < you'd better stop mountebanking round this town — J.B.Priestley >
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