sly

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

furbo

astuto

scaltro

sornione

scaltra

subdolo

vispo

malizioso

cazzuto

volpina

scaltre

prudente

saggio

dotto

dritto

furba

furbesco

sinonimi

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

Traduzioni

schlau

rusé

listig

astuto

malin

listig

gewitzt

arglistig

gewiegt

abgefeimt

gerissen

kurnaz

astucieux

astuto

gewiekst

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/slaɪ/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: sly

Affine islandese: slægur

Affine norvegese nynorsk: sløg

Affine saterfriesisch: slau

Affine olandese: sluw

Affine basso tedesco: slu

Affine tedesco: 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