Reverse Dictionary: CHARLATAN

NOUNS – PERSON
► ANDREW a charlatan, a clown; a mountebank → 1839 Eng. dial.
► CABOTIN a charlatan; a low-class actor → 1903
► FAKE a charlatan, a thief; a swindler; a confidence trickster → 1881 Amer. sl.
► FAKER a charlatan, a swindler;; broadly, a crook → 1881 sl.
► HORNSWOGGLE a charlatan, a trickster → 1908 US sl.
► MOUNTEBANK 1. an itinerant charlatan who sold supposed medicines and remedies, frequently using various entertainments to attract a crowd of potential customers; later, also an itinerant entertainer → 1566
2. a charlatan, a person who falsely claims knowledge of or skill in some matter, esp. for personal gain; a person who pretends to be something he or she is not, in order to gain prestige, fame, etc.; a boastful pretender → 1589
► MOUNTED ANDREW a charlatan, a merry-andrew or mountebank → 1881 (Bk.)
► QUACK a charlatan; an ignorant pretender to medical or surgical skill; one who boasts to have a knowledge of wonderful remedies; an empiric or impostor in medicine; an untrained physician → 1659
► QUACKSALVER a charlatan; an ignorant person who pretends to a knowledge of medicine or of wonderful remedies; an untrained physician → 1579
► SALTIMBANCO a charlatan, a mountebank; a quack; a fraudster → 1646
► SHOND a charlatan, a recreant; a deceiver; an infamous person → c725 obs.
► TOAD-EATER the attendant of a charlatan, employed to eat or pretend to eat toads (held to be poisonous) to enable his master to exhibit his skill in expelling poison → 1629