spey wife, spae wife, spaewife noun a female a fortune teller: ...but auld Clemmie Reid was an uncannily gifted spey-wife and shop owners would gladly give her them [fruits], if they had them, in return for having their palm read.; Meckie’s granny ... was an old spaewife. She read the hands, and could tell the future, and she had cures for aw illnesses. 18-. etymology: Scots; Middle English spa; Old Norse spá; attested by JS, BW, form spae wife attested by SS |