PHRENOLOGIST

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who claims to be able to read your character from the shape of your skull

Synonyms:

craniologist; phrenologist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("phrenologist" is a kind of...):

charlatan; mountebank (a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes)

Derivation:

phrenology (a now abandoned study of the shape of skull as indicative of the strengths of different faculties)

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