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slyboots

[ slahy-boots ]

noun

, (used with a singular verb)
  1. an engagingly sly or mischievous person.


slyboots

/ ˈslaɪˌbuːts /

plural noun

  1. functioning as singular a person who is sly
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of slyboots1

1690–1700; sly + boots (plural of boot 1 ), used metonymically; boots
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Example Sentences

The oleaginous Texan is an erudite slyboots, but his history is off kilter.

And I hope you will next introduce a grandson to me, young slyboots.

That was the very reason why I was employed by the cunning slyboots of a Don Ignatius.

What slyboots Bill Clinton so strikingly omitted saying was this: that Barack Obama has turned out to be the winner Americans thought they hired in electing him president.

“Maida, you slyboots, you must have done all this after we left.”

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