mountebankery
mountebankery noun: the practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
Noun
mountebankery (countable and uncountable, plural mountebankeries)
- 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
mountebankery meaning in Urdu
mountebankery in Urdu
- عطائیت, فریب, شیخی
Forms of mountebankery
| plural | mountebankeries |
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Origin of mountebankery
From mountebank + -ery.
Questions about mountebankery
- What does mountebankery mean?
- Mountebankery means the practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
- What is mountebankery in Urdu?
- Mountebankery in Urdu is عطائیت, فریب, شیخی. See Mountebankery meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is mountebankery?
- Mountebankery is a noun.
- What is the plural of mountebankery?
- The plural of mountebankery is mountebankeries.
Words near mountebankery in the dictionary
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