sly

Significat (Anglès)

Adj

1. Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.
2. Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice
3. Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle
4. Light or delicate; slight; thin.

Adv

Slyly.

Conceptes

astut

murri

sorneguer

bergant

foxé

artificiós

sagaç

Sinònims

cunning

crafty

wily

shrewd

tricky

clever

foxy

artful

astute

smart

dodgy

canny

sharp

nimble

shifty

skillful

cautious

calculating

devious

cagey

sneaky

deceitful

slick

dishonest

knavish

guileful

arch

furtive

underhanded

vulpine

leery

underhand

tricksy

mischievous

be clever

treacherous

pawky

subtle

be sly

insidious

evasive

slim

secretive

scheming

fraudulent

resourceful

practic

two faced

scampish

trappy

Traduccions

schlau

rusé

listig

furbo

astuto

malin

astuto

listig

scaltro

gewiegt

abgefeimt

arglistig

gewitzt

gerissen

astucieux

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/slaɪ/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: sly

Cognat amb islandès: slægur

Cognat amb noruec nynorsk: sløg

Cognat amb Saterfriesisch: slau

Cognat amb neerlandès: sluw

Cognat amb baix alemany: slu

Cognat amb alemany: schlau

In summary

From Middle English sly, sley, sleigh, sleiȝ, from Old Norse slǿgr (“sly, cunning”, literally “capable of hitting or striking”), from Proto-Germanic *slōgiz (“lively, agile, cunning, sly, striking”), from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, throw”).
Cognate with Icelandic slægur (“crafty, sly”), Norwegian Nynorsk sløg (“sly”). Related to sleight, slay. In all likelihood, however, unrelated with Saterland Frisian slau (“sly, crafty”), Dutch sluw (“sly, cunning”), Low German slu (“sly, cunning”), German schlau (“clever, crafty”). Doublet of sleight and slöjd