Dictionary Entry
mountebank
mountebank is a 10-letter English word with 5 senses as noun, transitive verb, and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 23 · 5 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
- 3transitive verb
To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.
- 4intransitive verb
To play the mountebank.
- 5noun
a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes
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