Posted on 09/18/2017 6:40:27 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 9/18/17
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
mountebank; noun
noun
1.
a person who sells quack medicines, as from a platform in public places, attracting and influencing an audience by tricks, storytelling, etc.
2.
any charlatan or quack.
verb (used without object)
3.
to act or operate as a mountebank
Etymology: 1570-1580 1570-80; (< Middle French) < Italian montimbanco one who climbs on a bench, equivalent to mont(are) to climb (see mount1) + -im-, variant of in on + banco bench (see bank2)
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
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Practice makes perfect.....post on....
A++++
hopefully will be better.
A naturopath is a variation of a mountebank.
More akin to Snidely Whiplash, not to be confused with a financial institution for the RCMP…
Dudley DoRight!
A+++ is that like an osteopath?
A++++ ! blast from the past!
You do right with that. A Mountie Bank! LOL!
Bill Nye, Science Guy, and mountebank
A Climate Change liar, first rank
When asked to show proof
He just raises the roof
Cries “Conensus!” but data points stank
fantastic !! he is obnox on stilts!! A+++++
Yesterday, my compadre and I helped my neighbor and friend carry some furniture from her barn to her house-things her recently deceased brother had left to her-we traded our work for more of the salvaged stuff her former boss left in her barn when he left the state-that barn is a prepper’s paradise-it is where we got all those fancy windows earlier in the summer-this time, we scored a welding rig for my compadre, and enough fancy solid surface countertops-from a remodel of some well-off person’s house-to equip a large kitchen.
I gave my compadre 1st dibs on them, but he doesn’t like the /gray/blue color-he wants to wait and see if some more neutral ones come available-I love the color, so I guess I have the countertops for my cabin’s kitchen when I build it-they are nicer than what I’d be able to afford to buy, too-almost too fancy for a rustic cabin, but they will look perfect with natural finish knotty pine cabinets...
My compadre claimed the larger of two fancy woodstoves for his part of the barter-between us, we now have 5 woodstove and a drop-in fireplace box and flue-I think that is enough to heat 2 cabins if/when the SHTF and we have to go off-grid...
Every mountebank in congress
Is pretending not to understand
That voters are not all so dumb
And are holding a winning hand
Many have primary challengers
Who want to spoil all the fun-
Taking the place of the RINOs
Who never get anything done
RINOs better pay attention-
Get snouts out of the trough
And do what they get paid for
Instead of pissing voters off...
No, osteopaths are pretty close to medical docs in their training and qualifications. The others are just loony.
an·i·mad·ver·sion
NOUN
criticism or censure:
"her animadversion against science"
a comment or remark, especially a critical one:
"animadversions that the poet receives quite humbly"
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