Word of the day...mountebank..mountebank A mountebank has a talent for tricking people into buying things, like the mountebank who charms women into buying magic beauty pills for hundreds of dollars, though they are just ordinary vitamins you can buy anywhere. Mountebank, pronounced MOUN-tih-bank, has an interesting origin, in the Italian phrase monta in banco. It describes a doctor who would mount a bench in the marketplace. Standing a bit higher than the crowd enabled people to hear his sales pitch and see the potions and powders he claimed were medical cures that never failed — claims as bogus as his credentials. A mountebank is a fast-talking crook pretending to be an expert. mountebank n a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes Synonyms: charlatan Types: craniologist, phrenologist someone who claims to be able to read your character from the shape of your skull quack an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice Type of: beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster someone who leads you to believe something that is not truebank...
Posted on: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 12:04:57 +0000
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