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Synonyms
charlatan, fake, faker, fakir, fraud, hoaxer, humbug, impostor (or imposter), mountebank, phony (also phoney), pretender, quack, ringer, sham
1579, in the meaning defined above
obsolete Dutch (now kwakzalver)
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