mountebank vs phoney

mountebank

verb
  • To act as a mountebank. 

  • To cheat by boasting and false pretenses. 

noun
  • One who sells dubious medicines. 

  • Any boastful, false pretender. 

  • One who sells by deception; a con artist. 

phoney

How often have the words mountebank and phoney occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )