N. ignoramus, dunce, wooden spoon, no scholar, # moron, imbecile, idiot, fool, jerk, nincompoop, asshole, dilettante, sciolist, smatterer, dabbler, half scholar, charlatan, wiseacre, greenhorn, amateur, novice, tyro, numskull, lubber, fool, pedant

Adj. bookless, shallow, ignorant

Phr. "a wit with dunces and a dunce with wits"

N. deceiver &c (deceive ), dissembler, hypocrite, sophist, pharisee, jesuit, mawworm, pecksniff, joseph surface, tartufe, janus, serpent, snake in the grass, cockatrice, judas, wolf in sheep's clothing, jilt, shuffler|, stool pigeon, liar &c (lie ), story-teller, perjurer, false witness, menteur a triple etage, scapin, bunko steerer*, carpetbagger*, capper*, faker, fraud, four flusher*, horse coper, ringer*, spieler, straw bidder, imposter, pretender, soi-disant, humbug, adventurer, cagliostro, fernam mendez pinto, ass in lion's skin, actor, quack, charlatan, mountebank, saltimbanco, saltimbanque, empiric, quacksalver, medicaster, rosicrucian, gypsy, man of straw, conjuror, juggler, trickster, prestidigitator, jockey, crimp, decoy, decoy duck, rogue, knave, cheat, swindler, jobber

Phr. "saint abroad and a devil at home"

N. humorist, wag, wit, reparteeist, epigrammatist, punster, bel esprit, life of the party, wit-snapper, wit- cracker, wit-worm, joker, jester, joe miller|, drole de corps, gaillard, spark, bon diable, practical joker, buffoon, farceur, merry-andrew, mime, tumbler, acrobat, mountebank, charlatan, posturemaster, harlequin, punch, pulcinella, scaramouch, clown, wearer of the cap and bells, wearer of the motley, motley fool, pantaloon, gypsy, jack-pudding, jack in the green, jack a dandy, wiseacre, wise guy, smartass, fool, zany, madcap, pickle-herring, witling, caricaturist, grimacier, persifleur, 2, discriminative affections

N. affectation, affectedness, acting a part, pretense, (ostentation) 882, boasting, charlatanism, quackery, shallow profundity, pretension, airs, pedantry, purism, precisianism, euphuism, teratology, mannerism, simagree, grimace, conceit, foppery, dandyism, man millinery, coxcombry, puppyism, stiffness, formality, buckram, prudery, demureness, coquetry, mock modesty, minauderie, sentimentalism, mauvais honte, false shame, affector, performer, actor, pedant, pedagogue, doctrinaire, purist, euphuist, mannerist, grimacier, lump of affectation, precieuse ridicule, bas bleu, blue stocking, poetaster, prig, charlatan, petit maitre, flatterer, coquette, prude, puritan

V. affect, act a part, put on, give oneself airs, boast, coquet, simper, mince, attitudinize, pose, flirt a fan, overact, overdo

Adj. affected, full of affectation, pretentious, pedantic, stilted, stagy, theatrical, big-sounding, ad captandum, canting, insincere, not natural, unnatural, self-conscious, maniere, artificial, overwrought, overdone, overacted, euphuist, stiff, starch, formal, prim, smug, demure, tire a quatre epingles, quakerish, puritanical, prudish, pragmatical, priggish, conceited, coxcomical, foppish, dandified, finical, finikin, mincing, simpering, namby-pamby, sentimental

Phr. "conceit in weakest bodies strongest works"

N. boasting, boast, vaunt, crake|, pretense, pretensions, puff, puffery, flourish, fanfaronade, gasconade, blague, bluff, gas*, highfalutin, highfaluting, hot air, spread-eagleism, brag, braggardism, bravado, bunkum, buncombe, jactitation, jactancy, bounce, venditation|, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk, magniloquence, teratology|, heroics, chauvinism, exaggeration, vanity, vox et praeterea nihil, much cry and little wool, brutum fulmen, exultation, gloriation|, glorification, flourish of trumpets, triumph, boaster, braggart, braggadocio, gascon, fanfaron, pretender, soi-disant, blower, bluffer, foxy quiller, blusterer, charlatan, jack-pudding, trumpeter, puppy

V. boast, make a boast of, brag, vaunt, puff, show off, flourish, crake|, crack, trumpet, strut, swagger, vapor, blague, blow, four- flush *, bluff, exult, crow, crow over, neigh, chuckle, triumph, throw up one's cap, talk big, se faire valoir, faire claquer son fouet, take merit to oneself, make a merit of, sing io triumphe, holloa before one is out of the wood

Adj. boasting, magniloquent, flaming, thrasonic, stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant, vainglorious, highfalutin, highfaluting, spread-eagle, elate, elated, jubilant, triumphant, exultant, in high feather, flushed, flushed with victory, cock-a-hoop, on stilts, vaunted

Adv. vauntingly

Phr. "let the galled jade wince", facta non verba