mountebank

Etymology
From archaic, contracted from.

Noun

 * 1) One who sells dubious medicines.
 * 2) One who sells by deception; a con artist.
 * 3) * 1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1974 Panther Books Ltd publication), part III: “The Mayors”, chapter 7, page 106, ¶ 13
 * “Are you allowing yourselves to be fooled by this mountebank, this harlequin? Do you cringe before a religion compounded of clouds and moonbeams? This man is an imposter and the Galactic Spirit he speaks of a fraud of the imagination devised to——”
 * 1) Any boastful, false pretender.
 * 2)  An acrobat.
 * 1) * 1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1974 Panther Books Ltd publication), part III: “The Mayors”, chapter 7, page 106, ¶ 13
 * “Are you allowing yourselves to be fooled by this mountebank, this harlequin? Do you cringe before a religion compounded of clouds and moonbeams? This man is an imposter and the Galactic Spirit he speaks of a fraud of the imagination devised to——”
 * 1) Any boastful, false pretender.
 * 2)  An acrobat.
 * 1) Any boastful, false pretender.
 * 2)  An acrobat.
 * 1)  An acrobat.
 * 1)  An acrobat.
 * 1)  An acrobat.

Translations

 * Arabic: دَجّال, مُشَعْوِذ
 * Bulgarian:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ὀχλαγωγός
 * Ukrainian: шарлатан

Verb

 * 1)  To act as a mountebank.
 * 2)  To cheat by boasting and false pretenses.