Meaning Of Mountebank

n.

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.

n.

Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.

v. t.

To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.

v. i.

To play the mountebank.