Word Meanings - SALTIMBANCO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mountebank; a quack. Saltimbancos, quacksalvers, and charlatans. Sir T. browne.

QUACK
1. To utter a sound like the cry of a duck. 2. To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast. " To quack of universal cures." Hudibras. 3. To act the part of a quack, or pretender.
QUACKISM
Quackery. Carlyle.
MOUNTEBANKISM
The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery.
QUACK GRASS
See GRASS
MOUNTEBANK
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. Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that
QUACKLE
To suffocate; to choke.
MOUNTEBANKERY
The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
QUACKSALVER
One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank. Burton.
MOUNTEBANKISH
Like a mountebank or his quackery. Howell.
QUACKERY
The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism. Carlyle.
QUACKISH
Like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery. Burke.