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] Charlatanic
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
charlatan
n : a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with
tricks or jokes [syn: mountebank]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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