n. 江湖郎中, 骗子

[ noun ]
a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes
<noun.person>

Mountebank \Mount"e*bank\, v. t.
To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull. [R.]
--Shak.


Mountebank \Mount"e*bank\, v. i.
To play the mountebank.


Mountebank \Mount"e*bank\, n. [It. montimbanco, montambanco;
montare to mount + in in, upon + banco bench. See {Mount},
and 4th {Bank}.]
1. One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other
public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and
vends medicines which he pretends are infallible remedies;
a quack doctor.

Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that
a mountebank . . . is preferred before an able
physician. --Whitlock.

2. Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.

Nothing so impossible in nature but mountebanks will
undertake. --Arbuthnot.