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
- sly-boot
- sly-boots
- slyboot
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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