I. ˈmau̇n-ti-ˌbaŋk noun
Etymology: Italian montimbanco, from montare to mount + in in, on + banco, banca bench
Date: 1577
1. : a person who sells quack medicines from a platform
2. : a boastful unscrupulous pretender : charlatan
• moun·te·bank·ery -ˌbaŋ-k(ə-)rē noun
II. verb
Date: 1607
transitive verb
obsolete : to beguile or transform by trickery
I'll mountebank their loves — Shakespeare
intransitive verb
: to play the mountebank