Reverse Dictionary: FORTUNE-TELLER

ADJECTIVES
► GIPSIE ► GYPSIE ► GYPSY relating to fortune-telling or other supernatural powers → 1615

NOUNS
► DOOKERING ► DOOKIN’ ► DUCKERING fortune-telling → M19 gypsy & tramp sl.
► LYESKEN CHIRPS fortune-telling → 18C tinker sl.
► MADBALL a crystal ball used by a fortune-teller → 1948 Amer. carnival usage
► MITT CAMP a fortune-telling booth in a carnival → 1980 US sl.

NOUNS – PERSON
► AUTEM-GOGGLER ► AUTEM-GOGLER a fortune-teller, a conjuror → E18 UK criminals’ sl.
► BOUNETTER a confidence trickster, esp. one who makes a living telling fortunes → M19 sl.
► CUNNING MAN a fortune-teller, a conjuror; a wizard → 1712 obs.
► CUNNING WOMAN a fortune-teller, a conjuror, a witch → 1616 obs.
► DOOKIN-COVE a fortune-teller → M19 sl.
► FACTOR a cheat or impostor; a fraudulent fortune-teller → 16C UK criminals’ sl.
► FATER ► FAYTER ► FAYTOR a cheat or impostor; a fraudulent fortune-teller → 16C UK criminals’ sl.
► FATILOQUIST one who declares or foretells fates; a fortune-teller → 1652 obs.
► HAND-READER a palm-reader; a person who tells fortunes by looking at the lines on a person’s palm → 1883
► LEARNED WOMAN a fortune-teller → 1878 Eng. dial.
► MITT READER a fortune teller who reads palms → 1928 US circus & carnival sl.
► PALMIST one who practices palmistry; one who professes to tell people’s characters and fortunes by examining the palms of their hands; a chiromancer → 1886
► PALMISTER one who practices palmistry; one who professes to tell people’s characters and fortunes by examining the palms of their hands; a chiromancer → a1500
► PYTHONIST a person who claims to be possessed by, and to speak the words of a spirit; a soothsayer; a fortune-teller; a conjuror → 1584
► SIBYL a prophetess; a fortune-teller, a witch → 1589
► SORTILEGER a person who divines or settles by drawing lots or otherwise; a diviner, a fortune-teller → 1400
► SPAE-ER ► SPAER one who foretells; a fortune-teller → 1820 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► SPAE MAN ► SPAYMAN a man who it is supposed can tell fortunes or foretell events; a prophet, a soothsayer, a fortune-teller, a wizard → a1505 Sc.
► SPAE WIFE ► SPAYWIFE a woman who it is supposed can tell fortunes or foretell events; a female fortune-teller; a witch → 1773 Sc.
► SPAE-WOMAN a female fortune-teller → 1828 Brit.
► TEA-GROUTER a fortune-teller who uses tea-leaves, the leaves being ‘grouted’ or turned over in the cup → a1833
► WISE-WIFE a witch; a female fortune-teller; a woman who deals in astrology, charms, etc. → 1897 Sc.
► WISE WOMAN a witch; a sorceress; a fortune teller → 1808
► WITTER-WIFE a female soothsayer or fortune-teller → 1891 Sc.

VERBS
► COLD-READ of a fortune-teller: to tell a fortune without background information on the customer, relying on observations and the customer’s answers for the predictions → 1989 US sl.