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mountebankeries

mountebankeries is the plural of mountebankery.

Meaning of mountebankery

Noun

mountebankery (countable and uncountable, plural mountebankeries)

  1. The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
    • I have already alluded to "strawing," which can hardly be described as quackery. It is rather a piece of mountebankery. […] The strawer offers to sell any passer by in the streets a straw and give the purchaser a paper which he dares not sell. Accordingly as he judges of the character of his...1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor

Questions about mountebankeries

What is mountebankeries the plural of?
Mountebankeries is the plural of mountebankery.

Words near mountebankeries in the dictionary

  1. Mountcastles
  2. Mountcharles
  3. mountdown
  4. mountebank
  5. mountebanked
  6. mountebankeries
  7. mountebankery
  8. mountebanking
  9. mountebankish
  10. mountebankism
  11. mountebankisms

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