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slyboot

slyboot is the alternative form 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 slyboot

pluralslyboots

Questions about slyboot

What is slyboot the alternative form of?
Slyboot is the alternative form of slyboots.

Words near slyboot in the dictionary

  1. Sly syndrome
  2. sly-boot
  3. sly-boots
  4. sly-grog
  5. sly-grogs
  6. slyboot
  7. slyboots
  8. Slye
  9. slyer
  10. Slyes
  11. slyest

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