ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Slyboots

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Slyboots is a noun meaning (chiefly British) A person who is clever or shrewd, especially one who is stealthy, manipulative, and rather charming.

Meaning

(chiefly British) A person who is clever or shrewd, especially one who is stealthy, manipulative, and rather charming.

Example Sentences

You're such a slyboots, old cocky. I could kiss you.
This slyboots took me for a ton of money, made me do whatever she wanted.
"Oh, you sly-boots!" says the Countess. "Guess you come after the old lady's money!"
But Truth is such a flyaway, such a slyboots, so untransportable and unbarrelable a commodity, that it is as bad to catch as light.

Word Forms

Synonyms for slyboots

Depending on context, synonyms include operator, rogue, fox, dodger.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dodger, fox, slyboot, sly-boots, sly-boot, slink.

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