Mountebank (noun)
moun-te-bank
a person who deceives others, especially in order to trick them out of their money; a charlatan.
1570–80; (Middle French ) Italian montimbanco one who climbs on a bench, equivalent to mont(are) to climb + -im-, variant of in on + banco bench
Example sentences
“It’s said the mountebank is now shilling weight loss treatments for the Daily Mail”
Medley (noun) med-lee a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble. First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun and adjective medle(e), medlei(e), maedlai(e) “battle, war, quarrel; mixture, balanced mixture,” from…
