Search Result for "charlatan":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes;
[syn: mountebank, charlatan]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Charlatan \Char"la*tan\, n. [F. charlatan, fr. It. ciarlatano, fr. ciarlare to chartter, prate; of imitative origin; cf. It. zirlare to whistle like a thrush.] One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank. [1913 Webster] CharlatanicMoby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
30 Moby Thesaurus words for "charlatan": blagueur, bluff, bluffer, charlatanic, charlatanish, fake, faker, fourflusher, fraud, horse doctor, humbug, impersonator, impostor, malingerer, medicaster, medicine man, medicine monger, mountebank, phony, poser, poseur, pretender, quack, quackish, quacksalver, quackster, ringer, saltimbanco, sham, shammer
