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单词 cunning man
释义

cunning man

See also: cunningman

English

Noun

cunning man (plural cunning men)

  1. (historical) A wise man or wizard; a magician.
    • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society (2012), page 172:
      Magical healing [] was the business of the cunning man, to whom the sufferer would have recourse and to whom he would normally be expected to make some form of payment.

See also

  • cunning woman
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