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cunning men

cunning men is the plural of cunning man.

Meaning of cunning man

Noun

cunning man (plural cunning men)

  1. (historical) A wise man or wizard; a magician.
    • 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.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 172

Questions about cunning men

What is cunning men the plural of?
Cunning men is the plural of cunning man.

Words near cunning men in the dictionary

  1. cunning folk
  2. cunning linguist
  3. cunning linguistics
  4. cunning linguists
  5. cunning man
  6. cunning men
  7. cunning stunt
  8. cunning woman
  9. cunning women
  10. Cunningar
  11. cunninger

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