slyboots

American

[slahy-boots] / ˈslaɪˌbuts /

noun

(used with a singular verb)

an engagingly sly or mischievous person.

slyboots British

/ ˈslaɪˌbuːts /

plural noun

(functioning as singular) a person who is sly

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Etymology

Origin of slyboots

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

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slyboots

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

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 1, 2015

Jessica, the one with the slyboots expression, married a Red, Esmond Romilly, but then, he was a nephew of Sir Winston Churchill.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two days after your departure—for it was you, slyboots, who got the affair away from my proprietor—some men came here and rid me of that arrogant old fool and all his belongings.

From The Brotherhood of Consolation by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

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

From Wild Oats or, The Strolling Gentlemen by Anonymous

Are you very sure that Antoinette may not be a slyboots?

From Samuel Brohl and Company by Victor Cherbuliez

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