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mountebanking

mountebanking is the present participle and gerund of mountebank.

Meaning of mountebank

Verb

mountebank (third-person singular simple present mountebanks, present participle mountebanking, simple past and past participle mountebanked)

  1. (intransitive) To act as a mountebank.
  2. (transitive) To cheat by boasting and false pretenses.
    • Ile Mountebanke their Loues, / Cogge their Hearts from them,c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

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Questions about mountebanking

What is mountebanking the present participle and gerund of?
Mountebanking is the present participle and gerund of mountebank.

Words near mountebanking in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mountebanking (page history and authors); mountebank (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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