Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mountebankery

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: moun-te-bankery
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"I have already alluded to "strawing," which can hardly be described as quackery. It is rather a piece of mountebankery. […] The strawer offers to sell any passer by in the streets a straw and give the purchaser a paper which he dares not sell. Accordingly as he judges of the character of his audience, so he intimates that the paper is political, libellous, irreligious, or indecent."

Etymology

From mountebank + -ery.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: mountebank

Usage

Inflected Forms

mountebankeries (plural)

Questions

What does mountebankery mean?: The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
Where does mountebankery come from?: From mountebank + -ery.

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