Cagey

Definitions: Cagey

Cagey

Adjective

1. Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others; "a cagey lawyer"; "too clever to be sound".

2. Characterized by great cautious and wariness; "a cagey avoidance of a definite answer"; "chary of the risks involved"; "a chary investor".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cagey" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1908. (references)

Synonyms: Cagey

Crosswords: Cagey

Cagey Business (1965)

The Cagey Canary (1941)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The Cagey Bee Byte (Microkidz) (reference)

• Very Cagey Lady (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

i zgjuar (apt, artful, astir, awake, awaken, bright, cagy, clever, exalted, ingenious, intelligent, nimble, quick, quick-witted, ready-witted, reasonable, responsible, sagacious, sharp, sharp-witted, sleepless, smart, wakeful, waking), i mbyllur (barred, cagy, close, closed, confined, enclosed, finished, glued, laid up, landlocked, locked, made, pent up, reserved, sealed, self contained, shut, shut in, uncommunicative, uncompanionable, unconversable, unsociable, unsocial, withdrawn), i heshtur (antisocial, cagy, catlike, close-mouthed, dumb, latent, mute, quiet, silent, sleepy, taciturn, tight lipped, wordless), finok (astute, crafty, cunning, politic, sharp, smart, wily). (various references)

Arabic 

‏محترس (alert, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, prudent, vigilant, wary), ‏حذر (admonish, advise, alert, alertness, be careful, be wise, beware, calculating, calculation, canny, care, careful, caution, cautious, cautiousness, chariness, chary, considerate, discreet, discreetness, discretion, exhort, fabian, forewarn, guard, guarded, guarding, heedful, leery, look behind, look out, lookout, mind, on the alert, on the lookout, prudence, prudent, safe, shy, shyness, sound an alarm, suspicious, take care, vigilance, vigilant, wariness, warn, wary, watch, wide awake). (various references)

Bulgarian 

уклончив (circumlocutional, evasive, lubricous, non committal, oblique), скрит (cagy, clandestine, close, covert, delitescent, dormant, furtive, hidden, implicit, implied, insidious, latent, occult, potential, private, privy, recondite, secret, sneaking, snug, ulterior, underlying), предпазлив (canny, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, cosy, deliberate, deliberative, discreet, fabian, gingerly, guarded, open-eyed, precautious, prudent, sparing, ware, wary), потаен (cagy, covert, disingenuous, furtive, hush hush, inner, reserved, reticent, secret, secretive, sly, stealthy, subterranean, underhand). (various references)

Czech

uzavřený (cagy, closed, incestuous, pent, recluse, retiring, select, taciturn, unapproachable, withdrawn), tajnùstkářský (cagy, secretive), opatrnický (cagy, faint-hearted, noncommittal), opatrný (cagy, cannie, canny, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, circumspective, conservative, gingerly, guarded, prudent, safe, shy, wary). (various references)

Farsi 

کمرو (Chary, Chicken, Coy, Meticulous, Sheepish, Shy, Timid, Unassertive), زیرک (Acute, Adroit, Agile, Alert, Astute, Brilliant, Canny, Clever, Cunning, Gash, Keen, Perspicacious, Sagacious, Sharp, Shrewd, Smart, Subtle, Uncanny). (various references)

French

réticent (cagy), méfiant. (various references)

German

raffiniert (artful, clever, crafty, cunning, fancy, ingenious, refined, refines, scheming, sharp, shrewd, smart, sneaky, sophisticated, stylish, subtle, wily), gerissen (broken, checked, crafty, cunning, cunningly, quirkily, sharp, shifty, slippery, sly, slyly, torn, wily, wrenched). (various references)

Greek 

έξυπνοσ (alert, awake, brainy, cagy, canny, clever, cute, hard-headed, ingenious, intelligent, knowing, parlous, politic, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, spiffy), φιλύποπτοσ (distrustful, leery, suspicious). (various references)

Hungarian

gyanakvó (cagy, defiant, distrustful, misgiving, mistrustful, suspicious, testy, trustless, yellow), óvatos (alert, be careful, cagy, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, conservative, discreet, fabian, guarded, heedful, prudent, reserved, stealthy, wary). (various references)

Indonesian

lihai (adroit, sly), licik (artful). (various references)

Italian

cauto (careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, deliberate, gingerly, heedful, safe, wary). (various references)

Pig Latin

ageycay.(various references)

Portuguese

cauteloso (cannie, cautionary, cautious, deliberate, gingerly, guardedly, heedless, mature, prudent, reserved, vigilant, wary, watchful), reservado (aloof, box, chilly, close, closet, confidential, demure, distant cousin, exclusive, freezing point, incommutable, long since, non committal, offish, particular, qualified, repulsive, reserved, reticent, retiring, secretive, self contained, separate, shy, special, stand off, stand offish, taciturn, unamenable, uncommunicative, undemonstrative), manhoso (designing, jesuitic, jesuitical, machinate, pawl, sharp, shifty, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, vulpine, wily), desconfiado (diffident, distune, mistrustful, shy, suspicious, touchy, trustless, umbrageous, wary). (various references)

Romanian

viclean (arch, artful, astute, catlike, catty, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, downy, foxy, guileful, leery, pawky, quick-witted, shifty, sly, slyly, subtle, wily), rezervat (cagily, cautious, cold, distant, dry, offish, reserved, secretive, self contained, shy, stand offish, sullen, unapproachable), precaut (cautious, cautiously, circumspect, gingerly, precautious, prudent, safe, thoughtful, warily, wary), ascuns (abstruse, backstairs, blind, close, concealed, covert, cryptic, dark, furtive, hidden, masked, mystic, occult, postern, privy, q.t., quiet, recondite, secluded, secret, secretive, self contained, sneaking, stealthy, sunken, ulterior, uncommunicative, underground, underhand, undiscovered), închis (black, close, close-mouthed, coop, covered, dark, deep, deeply, dun, involved, pent, red-hot, sad, shut, stuffy, sullen). (various references)

Russian 

скрытный (close, secretive), хитрый (artful, astute, cattish, catty, crafty, cunning, disingenuous, insidious, leery, pawky, rat-face, serpentine, sleeky, sly, tricky, vulpine, wily), неразговорчивый (inconversable, short-spoken, taciturn, unconversable). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

snalažljiv (adroit, clever, resourceful, worldly wise), prepreden (artful, cagy, cunning, guileful, politic, sharp, shrewd, slick, sly, smart, subtle, tricksy, tricky, vulpine), lukav (arch, artful, astute, cagy, canny, captious, crafty, cunning, designing, insidious, leery, perfidious, shrewd, sleeky, sly, tricky, vulpine, wily). (various references)

Spanish

cauteloso (cagy, cautious, chary, gingerly, piker, precautious, shy, stealthy, wary), reservón. (various references)

Swedish

slug (artful, astute, canny, clever, crafty, cunning, designing, foxy, knowing, leery, sharp, shifty, shrewd, sly, smart, tricky, wily), försiktig (canny, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, circumspective, conservative, deliberate, gingerly, guarded, mealy mouthed, tentative, wary). (various references)

Thai

ที่ไม่ต้องการเปิ�"เผย (คำไม่เป็นทางการ), คนสุขุม (nobody's fool). (various references)

Turkish

tedbirli (advised, canny, careful, cautious, circumspect, deliberate, deliberative, discreet, fabian, fail-proof, fail-safe, forethoughtful, guarded, politic, precautionary, prudent, prudential, tactical, wary, well advised), sırrını söylemeyen, kurnaz (arch, artful, astute, calculating, canny, cattish, catty, coon, crafty, cunning, cute, designing, dodger, dodgy, downy, feline, Fox, foxy, hard boiled, heady, knowing, leery, politic, quirky, roguish, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slim, sly, sly old fox, slyboots, smart, subtile, tricky, vulpine, weasel, wheeler dealer, wide awake, wily, wise guy), kapalı kutu (a dark horse, close-lipped, close-tongued, secretive), ihtiyatlı (cautious, chary, deliberative, discreet, fabian, forethoughtful, guarded, heedful, politic, precautionary, provident, prudent, prudential, restrained, shy, temperate, undemonstrative, vigilant, waiting, wary, well advised), ağzı sıkı (close-lipped, discreet, incommunicative, inexpressive, reserved, reticent, secretive, tight lipped). (various references)

Ukranian 

ухильний у відповідях (cagy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

láu (arch, archly, cagy, deep, trick), không nên nói nước đôi như vậy (cagy), không cởi mở; khó gần khôn ngoan (cagy). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "cagey": cageyness, cageynesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cagey" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acey, cabey, Cadeby, Caega, cafey, cagen, Cager, caget, caggy, cago, cagy, cakey, caley, calge, Catey, cauge, cavey, cawey, cege, cegi, cegy, cge, cgi, chagoi, cige, coage, cogedy, Cogley, cuey, gagey, Mccaghy, pagey, ragey, sagey, Scraghey. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cage, cagy.

-2 letters: ace, age, aye, cay, gae, gay, gey, yea.

-3 letters: ae, ag, ay, ya, ye.

+1 letter: agency, legacy.

+2 letters: gynecia.

+3 letters: aglycone, category, coagency, cottagey, cyanogen, decaying, delegacy, elegancy, gauchely, geomancy, gramercy, gynaecea, gynaecia, gynoecia, megacity, regnancy, tangency.

+4 letters: aglycones, cageyness, casefying, clergyman, coccygeal, cognately, cyanogens, genically, graywacke, gynaeceum, gynaecium, lackeying, megacycle, panegyric, phagocyte, plangency, pregnancy, sergeancy, subagency.

+5 letters: acetifying, acromegaly, archeology, autecology, benignancy, changeably, cyanogenic, degeneracy, escapology, exactingly, gametocyte, gracefully, graywackes, gynarchies, hackneying, kerygmatic, lacqueying, legitimacy, megacycles, menacingly, oceanology, panegyrics, phagocytes, recarrying, regeneracy, repugnancy.

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