单词 | fortune-teller |
释义 | fortune-tellern. One who ‘tells fortunes’. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > fortune-telling > [noun] > fortune-teller spaeman?a1505 cole-prophet1532 lot-teller1575 fortune-teller1612 fortune-flinger1642 fatary1652 fatiloquist1652 fortunary1652 fortune-speller1652 tea-groutera1833 tick-off1934 1612 J. Mason Anat. Sorcerie 46 They travelled about the country, as fortune-tellers..and such like do with us. a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) v. i. 240 One Pinch..A thred-bare Iugler, and a Fortune-teller . View more context for this quotation 1728 J. Swift Phyllis in J. Swift et al. Misc. Prose & Verse (ed. 2) II. 134 Long ago a fortune-teller Exactly said what now befel her. 1874 F. C. Burnand My Time xii. 101 The fortune-teller, who, from the lines engraved on the open palm, predicts a destiny. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1612 |
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