Cagy

Definition: Cagy

Cagy

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.
 

"Cagy" is a common misspelling or typo for: cage, cagey, cavy, cay.

Synonyms: Cagy

Albanian

i zgjuar (apt, artful, astir, awake, awaken, bright, cagey, clever, exalted, ingenious, intelligent, nimble, quick, quick-witted, ready-witted, reasonable, responsible, sagacious, sharp, sharp-witted, sleepless, smart, wakeful, waking), i mbyllur (barred, cagey, 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reserved, sealed, self contained, shut, shut in, uncommunicative, uncompanionable, unconversable, unsociable, unsocial, withdrawn), i heshtur (antisocial, cagey, catlike, close-mouthed, dumb, latent, mute, quiet, silent, sleepy, taciturn, tight lipped, wordless). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مقفص. (various references)

Bulgarian 

скрит (cagey, clandestine, close, covert, delitescent, dormant, furtive, hidden, implicit, implied, insidious, latent, occult, potential, private, privy, recondite, secret, sneaking, snug, ulterior, underlying), потаен (cagey, covert, disingenuous, furtive, hush hush, inner, reserved, reticent, secret, secretive, sly, stealthy, subterranean, underhand). (various references)

Czech

uzavřený (cagey, closed, incestuous, pent, recluse, retiring, select, taciturn, unapproachable, withdrawn), tajnùstkářský (cagey, secretive), opatrnický (cagey, faint-hearted, noncommittal), opatrný (cagey, cannie, canny, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect,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

French

réticent (cagey). (various references)

Greek 

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

Hungarian

ravasz (acute, artful, astute, be cunning, cagey, calculating, canny, catchy, colubrine, crafted, crafty, cunning, cute, deep, drafty, draughty, elusive, foxy, gimmicky, guileful, insidious, knowing, leery, pawky, shifty, shrewd, slick, slim, sly, to know how many beans make five, trappy, tricksy, tricky, trigger, vulpine, wily). (various references)

Pig Latin

agycay.(various references)

Russian 

осторожный человек (pussyfoot), осторожный (cagey, canny, cautious, chary, circumspect, circumspective, discreet, gingerly, prudent, wary, watchful). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

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

Spanish

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

Turkish

pişkin (brazenfaced, conscience-proof, hard bitten, hard boiled, hard-nosed, old, pushful, pushing, ripe, sophisticated, worldly, worldly wise). (various references)

Ukrainian

ухильний у відповідях (cagey). (various references)

Vietnamese 

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cay, gay.

-2 letters: ag, ay, ya.

+1 letter: cadgy, cagey.

+2 letters: agency, cagily, cogway, craggy, galyac, glycan, legacy.

+3 letters: aglycon, claying, cogways, coxalgy, galyacs, glycans, gynecia, myalgic, scraggy, yacking.

+4 letters: achingly, aglycone, aglycons, caddying, candying, carrying, category, coagency, cottagey, craggily, cyanogen, decaying, delegacy, elegancy, fancying, fugacity, garlicky, gauchely, geomancy, gramercy, grayback, gynaecea, gynaecia, gynarchy, gynoecia, megacity, regnancy, sagacity, scraggly, spagyric, syngamic, tangency, vagrancy, yachting.