Webster's English Dictionary

Enter the word to look up:

mountebank

moun.te.bank \'mau.nt-i-.bank\ \-.ban-k(*-)re-\ n [It montimbanco, fr. 
   montare to mount (fr. - assumed - VL) + Xin in, on (fr. L) + banco, banca 
   bench - more at BANK 1: a person who sells quack medicines from a platform  
   2: a boastful unscrupulous pretender : CHARLATAN  - mountebank vi