A flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes.
synonym: mountebank.
Roget 493:
ignoramus,
dunce;
wooden spoon;
no scholar.
[insulting terms for ignorant person:]
(imbecility)
499
(folly)
501
moron,
imbecile,
idiot;
fool,
jerk,
nincompoop,
asshole [Vulg.].
[person with superficial knowledge]
dilettante,
sciolist†,
smatterer,
dabbler,
half scholar;
charlatan;
wiseacre.
greenhorn,
amateur
etc.
(dupe)
547;
novice,
tyro
etc.
(learner)
541;
numskull.
lubber
etc.
(bungler)
701;
fool
etc.
501;
pedant
etc.
492.
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Roget 548:
deceiver
etc.
(deceive)
etc.
545;
dissembler,
hypocrite;
sophist,
Pharisee,
Jesuit,
Mawworm†,
Pecksniff,
Joseph Surface,
Tartufe†,
Janus;
serpent,
snake in the grass,
cockatrice,
Judas,
wolf in sheep's clothing;
jilt;
shuffler†,
stool pigeon.
liar
etc.
(lie)
etc.
544;
story-teller,
perjurer,
false witness,
menteur a triple etage [Fr.],
Scapin†;
bunko steerer [U.S.],
carpetbagger [U.S.],
capper [U.S.],
faker,
fraud,
four flusher [Slang],
horse coper†,
ringer [Slang],
spieler†,
straw bidder [U.S.].
imposter,
pretender,
soi-disant [Fr.],
humbug;
adventurer;
Cagliostro,
Fernam Mendez Pinto;
ass in lion's skin
etc.
(bungler)
701;
actor
etc.
(stage player)
599.
quack,
charlatan,
mountebank,
saltimbanco†,
saltimbanque†,
empiric,
quacksalver,
medicaster†,
Rosicrucian,
gypsy;
man of straw.
conjuror,
juggler,
trickster,
prestidigitator,
jockey;
crimp,
decoy,
decoy duck;
rogue,
knave,
cheat;
swindler
etc.
(thief)
792;
jobber.
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Roget 844:
humorist,
wag,
wit,
reparteeist†,
epigrammatist,
punster;
bel esprit,
life of the party;
wit-snapper,
wit-cracker,
wit-worm;
joker,
jester,
Joe Miller†,
drole de corps†,
gaillard†,
spark;
bon diable [Fr.];
practical joker.
buffoon,
farceur [Fr.],
merry-andrew,
mime,
tumbler,
acrobat,
mountebank,
charlatan,
posturemaster†,
harlequin,
punch,
pulcinella†,
scaramouch†,
clown;
wearer of the cap and bells,
wearer of the motley;
motley fool;
pantaloon,
gypsy;
jack-pudding,
jack in the green,
jack a dandy;
wiseacre,
wise guy,
smartass [Coll.];
fool
etc.
501.
zany,
madcap;
pickle-herring,
witling†,
caricaturist,
grimacier†;
persifleur†.
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Roget 855:
affectation;
affectedness
etc.
adj.;
acting a part
etc.
v.;
pretense
etc.
(falsehood)
544,
(ostentation)
882;
boasting
etc.
884.
charlatanism,
quackery,
shallow profundity;
pretension,
airs,
pedantry,
purism,
precisianism,
euphuism;
teratology
etc.
(altiloquence)
577.
mannerism,
simagree,
grimace.
conceit,
foppery,
dandyism,
man millinery,
coxcombry,
puppyism.
stiffness,
formality,
buckram;
prudery,
demureness,
coquetry,
mock modesty,
minauderie,
sentimentalism;
mauvais honte,
false shame.
affector,
performer,
actor;
pedant,
pedagogue,
doctrinaire,
purist,
euphuist,
mannerist;
grimacier;
lump of affectation,
precieuse ridicule [Fr.],
bas bleu [Fr.],
blue stocking,
poetaster;
prig;
charlatan
etc.
(deceiver)
548;
petit maitre
etc.
(fop)
854;
flatterer
etc.
935;
coquette,
prude,
puritan.
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Roget 884:
boasting
etc.
v.;
boast,
vaunt,
crake†;
pretense,
pretensions;
puff,
puffery;
flourish,
fanfaronade†;
gasconade;
blague†,
bluff,
gas [Slang];
highfalutin,
highfaluting†;
hot air,
spread-eagleism [U.S.];
brag,
braggardism†;
bravado,
bunkum,
buncombe;
jactitation†,
jactancy†;
bounce;
venditation†,
vaporing,
rodomontade,
bombast,
fine talking,
tall talk,
magniloquence,
teratology†,
heroics;
Chauvinism;
exaggeration
etc.
549.
vanity
etc.
880;
vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.];
much cry and little wool,
brutum fulmen [Lat.].
exultation;
gloriation†,
glorification;
flourish of trumpets;
triumph
etc.
883.
boaster;
braggart,
braggadocio;
Gascon [Fr.],
fanfaron†,
pretender,
soi-disant [Fr.];
blower [U.S.],
bluffer,
Foxy Quiller†;
blusterer
etc.
887;
charlatan,
jack-pudding,
trumpeter;
puppy
etc.
(fop)
854.
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Dutch: charlatan, kwakzalver, nar
Polish: szarlatan