slyboots
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slyboots
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From sly + boots.
noun slyboots · sly-boot · sly-boots · slyboot
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A person who is clever or shrewd, especially one who is stealthy, manipulative, and rather charming.
But Truth is such a flyaway, such a slyboots, so untransportable and unbarrelable a commodity, that it is as bad to catch as light.
Similar: artful dodger, con artist, operator, rogue
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| Français | chattemite |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Schlawiner, Schlitzohr |
| Italiano | gattamorta |
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