sly

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

rusé

malin

astucieux

matois

sournois

roublard

artificieux

espiègle

futé

rusée

finaud

retors

roué

ruse

secret

㊙️

trompeur

cauteleux

être malin

madré

maligne

coquin

surnois

roublarde

ironique

astucieuse

fourbe

perfide

renfermé

Synonymes

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

Traductions

schlau

listig

furbo

astuto

astuto

listig

gewiegt

gewitzt

abgefeimt

arglistig

scaltro

gerissen

kurnaz

astuto

gewiekst

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/slaɪ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: sly

Appartenant à islandais: slægur

Appartenant à norvégien nynorsk: sløg

Appartenant à saterlandais: slau

Appartenant à néerlandais: sluw

Appartenant à bas-allemand: slu

Appartenant à allemand: 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