单词 | fortune-tellers |
释义 | fortune tellernoun variants or less commonly fortune-teller ˈfȯr-chən-ˌte-lər plural fortune tellers also fortune-tellers : someone or something with the supposed ability to foretell future events and especially the details of a person's future For thousands of years, people have gone to fortune tellers because they wanted to know whom they would marry or whether they were going to be rich or famous. Muse Some of the fortune-tellers he encounters are ludicrously off the mark; others are uncannily accurate. Michael Upchurch You do not have to be a fortune teller to realize that sneezes, sniffles, plugged up noses and red eyes will be making their appearance in most of our houses within the next two months. Glenn Haege By the early 1900s it was possible to get a "psychic reading" from a mechanical fortune teller at the local penny arcade. Ralph and Terry Koval sometimes, specifically : a child's toy that consists of paper folded into four pyramid-shaped parts which are manipulated by the fingers to open and close with each part having a flap that can be unfolded to reveal an answer to one's question about the future : cootie catcher Some of the most commonly made folk toys are made of paper: fortune tellers (also known as cootie catchers), paper airplanes, spitballs shot through straws … Lowell (Massachusetts) Sun Your child may choose to decorate the fortune teller … with stickers or drawings, or to color the outside squares instead of writing the name of a color. Sally Worsham fortune-telling ˈfȯr-chən-ˌte-liŋ noun or adjective fortune-tellers nounas in diviners one who predicts future events or developments the carnival's fortune-teller should have predicted that I'd pass right by her Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance
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