Charlatan

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
charlatan
    n 1: a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with
         tricks or jokes [syn: {mountebank}, {charlatan}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Charlatan \Char"la*tan\, n. [F. charlatan, fr. It. ciarlatano,
   fr. ciarlare to chartter, prate; of imitative origin; cf. It.
   zirlare to whistle like a thrush.]
   One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable
   pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank.
   [1913 Webster] Charlatanic
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
30 Moby Thesaurus words for "charlatan":
      blagueur, bluff, bluffer, charlatanic, charlatanish, fake, faker,
      fourflusher, fraud, horse doctor, humbug, impersonator, impostor,
      malingerer, medicaster, medicine man, medicine monger, mountebank,
      phony, poser, poseur, pretender, quack, quackish, quacksalver,
      quackster, ringer, saltimbanco, sham, shammer
antiflux / dictionary / Charlatan
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