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sly-boots

sly-boots is the alternative spelling of slyboots.

Meaning of slyboots

Noun

slyboots (plural slyboots)

  1. (UK) A person who is clever or shrewd, especially one who is stealthy, manipulative, and rather charming.
    • But Truth is such a flyaway, such a slyboots, so untransportable and unbarrelable a commodity, that it is as bad to catch as light.1838 July 24, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Literary Ethics. An Oration Delivered before the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College, July 24, 1838”, in Nature, Addresses, and Lectures (Emerson’s Complete...

Forms of sly-boots

pluralsly-boots

Questions about sly-boots

What is sly-boots the alternative spelling of?
Sly-boots is the alternative spelling of slyboots.

Words near sly-boots in the dictionary

  1. sly dogs
  2. sly fox
  3. sly foxes
  4. Sly syndrome
  5. sly-boot
  6. sly-boots
  7. sly-grog
  8. sly-grogs
  9. slyboot
  10. slyboots
  11. Slye

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