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Mountebank vs Imposter - What's the difference?

mountebank | imposter |

As nouns the difference between mountebank and imposter

is that mountebank is one who sells dubious medicines while imposter is someone who attempts to deceive by using an assumed name or identity or other devious disguise.

As a verb mountebank

is to act as a mountebank.

mountebank

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who sells dubious medicines.
    • There is nothing so impossible in Nature but mountebanks will undertake; nothing so incredible but they will affirm. - John Bull
  • One who sells by deception; a con artist; a charlatan.
  • * 1951 , 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——”

    Quotations

    : * (English Citations of "mountebank")

    See also

    * patent medicine * snake oil * quack

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To act as a mountebank.
  • To cheat by boasting and false pretenses.
    • Chide me no more. I'll mountebank their loves,
    Cog their hearts from them, and come home beloved'' - ''Coriolanus     ,

    Derived terms

    * mountebankery

    References

    imposter

    English

    Alternative forms

    * impostor

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who attempts to deceive by using an assumed name or identity or other devious disguise.

    • Synonyms

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