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wily beguilies

wily beguilies is the plural of wily beguily.

Meaning of wily beguily

Noun

wily beguily (plural wily beguilies)

  1. (obsolete) Someone who is caught by their own trickery; a person that becomes trapped by their own craftiness.
  2. (obsolete) A cunning trick, something wily, trickery.
    • I often hazard upon certaine outslips of my minde for which I distrust my selfe; and certaine verball wilie-beguilies [translating finesses], whereat I shake mine eares; but I let them runne at hab or nab […].1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.8

Questions about wily beguilies

What is wily beguilies the plural of?
Wily beguilies is the plural of wily beguily.

Words near wily beguilies in the dictionary

  1. Wiluna
  2. Wilusa
  3. Wilusan
  4. Wilusans
  5. wily
  6. wily beguilies
  7. wily beguily
  8. wim
  9. Wiman
  10. WiMAX
  11. Wimberley

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