mountebank

n. 江湖郎中, 骗子

发音

US /ˈmaʊntəˌbæŋk/

词形变化

mountebanks 复数 mountebanks mountebanked mountebanking mountebanks 三单 mountebanking 现在分词 mountebanked 过去式 mountebanked 过去分词

别名

montebanc

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    One who sells dubious medicines.

  2. 2.

    One who sells by deception; a con artist.

    Are you allowing yourselves to be fooled by this mountebank, this harlequin? Do you cringe before a religion compounded of clouds and moonbeams? This man is an imposter and the Galactic Spirit he speaks of a fraud of the imagination devised to——

  3. 3.

    Any boastful, false pretender.

  4. 4.

    An acrobat.

    废旧
v.
  1. 1.

    To act as a mountebank.

    不及物
  2. 2.

    To cheat by boasting and false pretenses.

    及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

charlatan

上位词 6

cheat cheater trickster deceiver slicker beguiler

下位词 3

quack craniologist phrenologist

词源

From archaic Italian montambanco (“quack who mounts a bench to hawk his wares”), contracted from monta-in-banco (“mount on bench”).

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