mentalist
nounEtymology From mental + -ist.
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A practitioner of mentalism.
- 1997, I'm Alan Partridge (TV series), To Kill a Mocking Alan Jed Maxwell: See you next week then. We'll have that pint. Alan Partridge: Yep. Jed Maxwell: ...go and see my brother. Alan Partridge: No way, you big spastic! You're a mentalist!
- In front a staff sergeant with the new Royal Caledonians was gassing about Scullion and the regiment. 'And this major's a total fucking mentalist,' he said. 'What's mental about him?' asked the lance corporal beside him.2015, Andrew O'Hagan, The Illuminations, →ISBN, page 39:
- Derived terms
- mentalistic