Posted on 11/16/2011 6:30:32 AM PST by VRWCmember
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
mountebank \MOUN-tih-bank\ - noun
1. a person who sells quack medicines from a platform
2. a boastful unscrupulous pretender; charlatan
Example sentence:
In his newspaper column, Gavin criticized the talk-radio host as "a mountebank whose 'expert' opinions and advice are complete hooey."
Extra Example sentence:
"Bring your five-minute tales related to all things fraudulent and pseudo. Flimflammers, mountebanks, poseurs and snake oil salesmen especially welcome." -- From a literary events listing by Gina Webb in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 25, 2011
Did you know?
"Mountebank" derives from the Italian "montimbanco," which was formed by combining the verb "montare" ("to mount"), the preposition "in" (converted to "im," meaning "in" or "on"), and the noun "banco" ("bench"). Put these components together and you can deduce the literal origins of "mountebank" as someone mounted on a bench -- the "bench" being the platform on which charlatans from the 16th and 17th centuries would stand to sell their phony medicines. Mountebanks often included various forms of light entertainment on stage in order to attract customers. Later, extended uses of "mountebank" referred to someone who falsely claims to have knowledge about a particular subject or a person who simply pretends to be something he or she is not in order to gain attention.
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Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
Review Thread Four: Word For the Day, Friday 7/25/03: Potation
Review Thread Five: Word For the Day, Monday 8/19/03: Stolid
Review Thread Six: Word for the Day, Tuesday 11/09/2004: Peripatetic (Post #125 may be my best anagram post ever)
RCMP? That would be the Royal Canadian Mounte Pythons? Probably somewhere in the Rocky Mountes.
:D
Maybe my parents will try to secede from the county.....again.
I’ve noticed that many of your chosen words describe nobama. Is that done on purpose?
Being a mountebank, Obama is antagonistic to other types of banks.
Buried it down by the creek.
so will you be cooking a turkey for Tgiving dinner? do they have them over there?
Had a turkey last year. Rome this year :)
oh that’ll be nice. 3 years ago this thanksgiving, xsgirls and i had Tgiving dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe in Rome after seeing the Twilight movie at the Piazza di Populo movie theater.
The Obama regime is chock full to the brim with mountebanks, charlatans, grifters, and con-man. Those that don’t qualify for any of those monikers are simple idiots.
Nov. 2012...replace the whole lot.
Did they have a Thanksgiving dinner? In general, I shun American chain restaurants, but I could change my mind if it meant Thanksgiving!
yes they had a prix fixe thanksgiving meal. it was the only american restaurant we ate in that week but we wanted american food for Tgiving!
ouch.
You gotta get tired of Italian food every once in a while!
Oooh, that sounds like a plan. And I do miss American food. I am totally jonesing for some macaroni salad.
do they have mayo? seems you have the macaroni aspect covered! there was a pretty long wait, so factor that in, don’t know if they take reservations or not, but it was worth the wait.
Macaroni salad? It’s Thanksgiving, not 4th of July.
It was good, then? I will have to poll la famiglia to see what they think. I am going to do a turkey for Christmas. I have never made my own macaroni salad. It might be time to try.
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