单词 | sleight-of-hand man |
释义 | > as lemmassleight-of-hand man a. In sense ‘using or employing sleight of hand’, as sleight-of-hand man, sleight-of-hand professor, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] > juggler or conjurer jugglera1100 tregetour1340 hey-passa1593 prestigiator1595 baffler1606 feat-worker1617 hocus-pocus1624 hocus1647 chirosophist1652 fascinator1677 legerdemain1696 prestidigitator1712 conjurer1727 sleight-of-hand man1757 nimble-fingers1781 sleight-of-hand professor1801 legerdemainist1830 magician1834 illusionist1850 jongleura1851 wizard1859 deceptionist1883 mentalist1906 1757 J. H. Grose Voy. E.-Indies x. 185 The jugglers, or slight-of-hand-men greatly excel whatever I have seen or heard of them in Europe. 1801 Sporting Mag. 17 209 The exhibitions of a slight-of-hand professor. 1875 Chambers's Jrnl. 12 66 A sleight-of-hand gentleman is selling purses with half-crowns in them for one shilling each. < as lemmas |
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