moun·te·bank /ˈmaʊntɪˌbæŋk/
 江湖郎中,騙子


 Mount·e·bank n.
 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.


 Mount·e·bank, v. t. To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull. [R.]


 Mount·e·bank, v. i. To play the mountebank.

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 mountebank
      n : a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with
          tricks or jokes [syn: charlatan]