mountebank

mountebank englannista suomeksi

1. humpuukimestari

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mountebank englanniksi

1. One who sells dubious medicines.

2. (RQ:Shakespeare Othello)

3. (RQ:Arbuthnot Law)

4. (quote-book)

5. One who sells by deception; a artist.

(syn)

6. (RQ:Woolf Orlando)

7. 1951, Asimov|Isaac Asimov, ''(novel)|Foundation'' (1974 Books|Panther Books Ltd publication), part III: “The Mayors”, chapter 7, page 106, ¶ 13

“Are you allowing yourselves to be fooled by this mountebank, this harlequin? Do you cringe before a religion compounded of clouds and moonbeams? This man is an imposter and the Galactic Spirit he speaks of a fraud of the imagination devised to——”

8. (quote-journal)

9. Any boastful, false pretender.

10. (RQ:Shakespeare Comedy of Errors)

11. (RQ:Butler Hudibras)

12. (RQ:Thackeray Pendennis)

13. An acrobat.

14. To act as a mountebank.

15. To cheat by boasting and false pretenses.

16. (RQ:Shakespeare Coriolanus)