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pedomancy

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Divination by examining the soles of the feet.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Examples

  • May 13, 1975, Norman Mailer, letter to William f. Buckley, Jr. Needless to say, “midden,” if we are to translate, is the stuff through which one is trying to walk in that footless stocking while the editors of National Review are failing to bite the bullet and forsake all squalid pegomancy for pedomancy.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: podomancy

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From pedo- (“foot”) + -mancy.