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

Word History and Origins

Origin of slyboots¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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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.

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

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