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-mancy
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
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| -mancy | |
| —n combining form | |
| indicating divination of a particular kind: chiromancy | |
| [from Old French -mancie, from Latin -mantia, from Greek manteia soothsaying] | |
| -mantic | |
| —adj combining form | |
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Word Origin & History
-mancy
combining form meaning "divination by means of," from O.Fr. -mancie, from L.L. -mantia, from Gk. manteia "oracle, divination," from mantis "seer, prophet, soothsayer," related to mania "madness, frenzy" (see mania).
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