1. имя существительное 1) фигляр; шут Синоним(ы): acrobat 2) шарлатан Синоним(ы): charlatan, fraud 2. глагол 1) валять дурака 2) жульничать, обманывать
I. noun Etymology: Italian montimbanco, from montare to mount + in in, on + banco, banca bench 1. a person who sells quack medicines from a platform 2. a boastful unscrupulous pretender; charlatan • mountebankery noun II. verb transitive verb obsolete to beguile or transform by trickery Example: I'll mountebank their loves — Shakespeare intransitive verb to play the mountebank