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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
charlatan
    n 1: a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with
         tricks or jokes [syn: mountebank, charlatan]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Charlatan \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.
   [1913 Webster] Charlatanic

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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
blagueur, bluff, bluffer, charlatanic, charlatanish, fake, faker, fourflusher, fraud, horse doctor, humbug, impersonator, impostor, malingerer, medicaster, medicine man, medicine monger, mountebank, phony, poser, poseur, pretender, quack, quackish, quacksalver, quackster, ringer, saltimbanco, sham, shammer
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