mountebank

Sinhala Dictionary definitions for mountebank

mountebank 🔊

mountebank : වංචාකාරයා

mountebank definition

Noun.

  1. 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.
  2. Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.

Transitive verb. To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.

Intransitive verb. To play the mountebank.