sly

Signification (Anglais)

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.

rusé

malin

être malin

surnois

be clever

be sly

two faced

deceitful sneaky

on a high degree

subtile

cunning person

Fréquence

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/slaɪ/

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”).