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prestation | prester | presternum | prestidigital | prestidigitation | prestidigitator | prestige | prestigiation | prestigiator | prestigiatory | prestigious

prestidigitator

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CIDE DICTIONARY

prestidigitatorn. [L. praesto ready + digitus finger: cf. F. prestidigitateur.].
     One skilled in legerdemain or sleight of hand; a juggler.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

prestidigitator, n. formal a conjuror.

Derivative
prestidigitation n.
Etymology
F prestidigitateur f. preste nimble (as PRESTO) + L digitus finger

THESAURUS

prestidigitator

artist, artiste, belly dancer, burlesque queen, chorine, chorus boy, chorus girl, conjurer, coryphee, dancer, dancing girl, ecdysiast, entertainer, escamoteur, exotic dancer, female impersonator, geisha, geisha girl, guisard, guiser, hoofer, illusionist, impersonator, juggler, magician, mountebank, mummer, musician, nautch girl, peeler, performer, public entertainer, show girl, singer, sleight-of-hand performer, stripper, stripteaser, stripteuse, tricker, trickster, vaudevillian, vaudevillist

ROGET THESAURUS

prestidigitator

Deceiver

N deceiver &c (deceive), dissembler, hypocrite, sophist, Pharisee, Jesuit, Mawworm, Pecksniff, Joseph Surface, Tartufe, Janus, serpent, snake in the grass, cockatrice, Judas, wolf in sheep's clothing, jilt, shuffler, stool pigeon, liar &c (lie), story-teller, perjurer, false witness, menteur a triple etage, Scapin, bunko steerer, carpetbagger, capper, faker, fraud, four flusher, horse coper, ringer, spieler, straw bidder, imposter, pretender, soi-disant, humbug, adventurer, Cagliostro, Fernam Mendez Pinto, ass in lion's skin, actor, quack, charlatan, mountebank, saltimbanco, saltimbanque, empiric, quacksalver, medicaster, Rosicrucian, gypsy, man of straw, conjuror, juggler, trickster, prestidigitator, jockey, crimp, decoy, decoy duck, rogue, knave, cheat, swindler, jobber, saint abroad and a devil at home.


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