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; boots

Example Sentences

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

From The New Yorker

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From New York Times

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

From Project Gutenberg

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