wily beguily
wily beguily noun: someone who is caught by their own trickery; a person that becomes trapped by their own craftiness.
Noun
wily beguily (plural wily beguilies)
- Someone who is caught by their own trickery; a person that becomes trapped by their own craftiness.
- 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
Forms of wily beguily
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Origin of wily beguily
Rhyming alteration of wily + beguile.
Questions about wily beguily
- What does wily beguily mean?
- Wily beguily means someone who is caught by their own trickery; a person that becomes trapped by their own craftiness.
- What part of speech is wily beguily?
- Wily beguily is a noun.
- What is the plural of wily beguily?
- The plural of wily beguily is wily beguilies.
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