fortuneteller
Noun
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Noun
fortuneteller (plural fortunetellers)
- A person who professes to predict the future in return for money.
- ''"Cross my palm with silver and I'll tell you your fortune," said the fortuneteller.
- A cootie catcher.
- 2006, Andrew Wright, David Betteridge, Michael Buckby, Games for Language Learning (page 137)
- The usual exchange between English children is as follows: A: Who do you love? (referring to one of the names on the fortune-teller) B: Simon. A: S-I-M-O-N (alternately opens and shuts the device as he or she says each letter).
- 2006, Andrew Wright, David Betteridge, Michael Buckby, Games for Language Learning (page 137)
- French: diseur de bonne aventure, diseuse de bonne aventure
- German: Wahrsager, Wahrsagerin
- Italian: lettore della mano
- Portuguese: cartomante
- Russian: (♀ only) гада́лка
- Spanish: vidente, adivino, adivina
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