CHARLATAN

charlatan. Charlatan, [ch as sh] n. a quack, mountebank

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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.