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witch doctors

witch doctors is the plural of witch doctor.

Meaning of witch doctor

Noun

witch doctor (plural witch doctors)

  1. A person (often male) who is believed to ward off witchcraft and heal through magical powers; a shaman.
    • [T]he ſaid Dorothy Durent, having been with a Witch-Doctor, acknowledges upon Oath, that by his Advice, ſhe hang'd up her Child's Blanket in the Chimney, found a Toad in it at Night, had put it into the Fire, and held it there tho' it made a great and horrible Noiſe, and flaſht like Gunpowder, and...1718, Francis Hutchinson, “The Tryal before My Lord Chief Baron Hale”, in An Historical Essay Concerning Witchcraft. […], London: Printed for R. Knaplock, […], and D. Midwinter, […], →OCLC, page 110
  2. (Southern US) A dragonfly.
    Synonyms:
    snake doctor

Questions about witch doctors

What is witch doctors the plural of?
Witch doctors is the plural of witch doctor.

Words near witch doctors in the dictionary

  1. witch craze
  2. witch crazes
  3. witch cult
  4. witch cults
  5. witch doctor
  6. witch doctors
  7. witch doctress
  8. witch doctresses
  9. witch elm
  10. witch elms
  11. witch flounder

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