cunningman
See also: cunning man
English
editNoun
editcunningman (plural cunningmen)
- (obsolete) A fortuneteller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries.
- 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
- He that with injury is griev'd,
And goes to law to be reliev'd,
Is sillier than a sottish chouse
Who , when a thief has robb'd his house,
Applies himself to cunning men,
To help him to his goods agen
References
edit“cunningman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.