শুক্রবার, ১৯ আগস্ট, ২০১৬

Word of the Day(August 17, 2016)


mountebankAudio Pronunciation
Share on Google+
\MOUN-tuh-bangk\
noun
1. any charlatan or quack.
2. a person who sells quack medicines, as from a platform in public places, attracting and influencing an audience by tricks, storytelling, etc.
Quotes
So you restored the money to the widow, publicly, of course, because you love playing to the gallery and ranting and posing, like the mountebank that you are.
-- Maurice Leblanc, The Confessions of Arsène Lupin, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, 1912

কোন মন্তব্য নেই:

একটি মন্তব্য পোস্ট করুন