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slyboots

slyboots noun: a person who is clever or shrewd, especially one who is stealthy, manipulative, and rather charming.

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...
    • "Oh, you sly-boots!" says the Countess. "Guess you come after the old lady's money!"1858–1859, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “Troubles and Consolations”, in The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century, volume II, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1859, →OCLC, page 283

Examples of slyboots in a sentence

  • This slyboots took me for a ton of money, made me do whatever she wanted.2004, Umberto Eco, Geoffrey Brock, transl., The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, New York, N.Y.: Harvest/Harcourt, page 54
  • The oleaginous Texan is an erudite slyboots, but his history is off-kilter.2015 November 1, Hendrik Hertzberg, “That G.O.P. Debate: Two Footnotes”, in The New Yorker:

Synonyms of slyboots

Forms of slyboots

pluralslyboots
alternative formsly-boot
alternative formsly-boots
alternative formslyboot

Origin of slyboots

From sly + boots.

Questions about slyboots

What does slyboots mean?
Slyboots means a person who is clever or shrewd, especially one who is stealthy, manipulative, and rather charming.
How do you use slyboots in a sentence?
This slyboots took me for a ton of money, made me do whatever she wanted.
What part of speech is slyboots?
Slyboots is a noun.
What is the plural of slyboots?
The plural of slyboots is slyboots.

Words near slyboots in the dictionary

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

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