Leery

Definition: Leery

Leery

Adjective

1. Openly distrustful and unwilling to confide.

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

Date "leery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1886. (references)

Slang in 1811

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

Synonyms: Leery

Cunning

Adjective: cunning, crafty, artful; skillful; subtle, feline, vulpine; cunning as a fox, cunning as a serpent; deep, deep laid; profound; designing, contriving; intriguing;Verb: strategic, diplomatic, politic, Machiavelian, timeserving; artificial; tricky, tricksy; wily, sly, slim, insidious, stealthy; underhand; (hidden); subdolous; deceitful; slippery as an eel, evasive; crooked; arch, pawky, shrewd, acute; sharp, sharp as a tack, sharp as a needle; canny, astute, leery, knowing, up to snuff, too clever by half, not to be caught with chaff.

Crosswords: Leery

I've been leery of ("I Will Wait"; performing artist: Hootie & The Blowfish)

Sri Lankans are really leery of Landry's rules. (references; author: unknown)

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We don't like our meat like that and tend to be leery of things that do. I was definitely leery of these lizards.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

syhapur (awake, lidless, vigilant, wary, watchful, wide awake), dyshues (distrustful, doubtful, doubting, dubious, incredulous, mistrustful, queer, shady, suspicious, wary), dinak (argute, artful, canny, crafty, cunning, daedalian, devious, furtive, pawky, sleeky, sly, wily). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حذر (admonish, advise, alert, alertness, be careful, be wise, beware, cagey, calculating, calculation, canny, care, careful, caution, cautious, cautiousness, chariness, chary, considerate, discreet, discreetness, discretion, exhort, fabian, forewarn, guard, guarded, guarding, heedful, 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 

хитър (acute, arch, artful, calculating, catty, clever, crafty, cunning, cute, deep, designing, disingenuous, dodgy, foxy, guileful, insidious, knowing, long-headed, parlous, patent, pawky, politic, sharp, shifty, shrewd, sleek, slim, sly, smart, supple, wary, wide, wily, wordly-wise), подозрителен (distrustful, doubtful, equivocal, jealous, mistrustful, queer, suspect, suspicious). (various references)

Chinese 

猜疑. (various references)

Czech

lstivý (crafty, cunning, deceitful, designing, politic, subtle, tricky, underhand, wily). (various references)

French

méfiant. (various references)

German

schlau (artful, astute, brightly, canny, clever, cleverly, crafty, cunning, cunningly, cute, foxy, neat, neatly, nifty, sharp, shifty, shrewd, shrewdly, slily, sly, slyly, smart, smartly, sneaky, vulpine, vulpinely, wily, wise). (various references)

Greek 

φιλύποπτοσ (cagey, distrustful, suspicious). (various references)

Hungarian

furfangos (arch, astute, foxy, ikey, politic, smart, tricky), feltűnően öltözött, agyafúrt (artful, coony, cute, dodgy, foxy, out and out, pawky, sharp, shrewd, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily), éhségtől ájuldozó. (various references)

Italian

astuto (arch, artful, astute, cagey, canny, crafty, cunning, shrewd, slick, sly, subtle, wily). (various references)

Pig Latin

eerylay

Portuguese

olhar lubricamente, astuto (acute, adroit, arch, artful, astucious, astute, canny, clearheaded, clever, crafty, cunning, designing, guileful, jesuitic, jesuitical, longing, Machiavellian, perspicacious, sharp, shifty, shrewd, sly, smart, sophisticated, subtil, subtile, subtle, tricksy, tricky, vulpine, wily), ardiloso (artful, astute, captious, clever, cunning, elusive, guileful, sly, smart). (various references)

Romanian

viclean (arch, artful, astute, cagey, catlike, catty, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, downy, foxy, guileful, pawky, quick-witted, shifty, sly, slyly, subtle, wily), bãnuitor (distrustful, mistrustful, mistrustfully, squint, suspicious, yellow), şmecher (acute, arch, artful, astute, canny, catchy, clever, crafty, cunning, cute, deep, dodger, downy, sharp, shaver, shifty, slick, slippery, sly, slyboots, wise guy). (various references)

Russian 

хитрый (artful, astute, cagey, cattish, catty, crafty, cunning, disingenuous, insidious, pawky, rat-face, serpentine, sleeky, sly, tricky, vulpine, wily), бывалый (worldly wise, worldly-wise), подозрительный (distrustful, queer, questionable, screwy, suspect, suspicious, umbrageous, wary). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

lukav (arch, artful, astute, cagey, cagy, canny, captious, crafty, cunning, designing, insidious, perfidious, shrewd, sleeky, sly, tricky, vulpine, wily), sumnjičav (distrustful, sceptic, sceptical, suspicious), nepoverljiv (distrustful, doubting, incredulous, mistrustful, no confidence, suspicious, trustless). (various references)

Spanish

sospechoso (dubious, fishy, shady, shifty, suspect, suspicious, under a cloud), poco aprobado, no exacto, no controlado (offshore, uncontrollable), no aprobado (unfair), de origen dudoso, astuto (artful, astute, cannie, canny, clever, colic, crafty, cunning, deep, devious, dodgy, foxy, guileful, insidious, knowing, malicious, mischievous, nasty, pawky, politic, sharp, shifty, sleeky, slick, sly, smart, tricky, vicious, wide, wily, worldly wise). (various references)

Swedish

slug (artful, astute, cagey, canny, clever, crafty, cunning, designing, foxy, knowing, sharp, shifty, shrewd, sly, smart, tricky, wily), misstänksam (distrustful, suspicious), förslagen (cunning, shifty, wily). (various references)

Turkish

uyanık (alert, argus-eyed, astir, awake, aware, canny, conscious, enterprising, fly, guarded, heady, nimble, on the alert, open-eyed, sharp, shrewd, sleepless, smart, unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, waking, wary, watchful, wide awake, with it), temkinli (chary, dignified, gingerly, slow and sure, sure footed, undemonstrative, unflappable, waiting, well advised), kurnaz (arch, artful, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, cattish, catty, coon, crafty, cunning, cute, designing, dodger, dodgy, downy, feline, Fox, foxy, hard boiled, heady, knowing, 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), açıkgöz (alert, astute, canny, cunning, fly, heady, hip, knowing, nimble, open-eyed, sharp, shrewd, smart, spry, up and coming, vigilant, wide awake). (various references)

Ukranian 

хитрий (arch, argute, artful, astute, canny, cattish, crafty, cunning, devious, doleful, enterprising, foxy, hard-headed, pawky, shifting, shrewd, sly, tricky, wide, wily), бувалий (hard-headed, veteran, weather beaten, weathered), підозрілий (doubtful, dubious, mistrustful, questionable, rum, rummy, screwy, suspect, suspicious, wary). (various references)

Vietnamese 

láu cá (crafty, cunning, devious, dodgy, foxlike, tricksy, tricky). (various references)

Misspellings

"Leery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bleery, ceery, cleery, eerry, eler, elergy, fleery, jeery, keery, laery, lairy, larey, Learny, Learsy, lecery, leeky, leera, leeri, leerie, leert, leety, lerb, lergy, Leri, lerr, Lerry, lerv, lery, lety, leur, leutry, lexey, lher, libry, liery, linery, liry, liuerie, loury, luey, lury, lyr, lyrg, lyri, neery, reery, seery. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: eely, eery, eyer, eyre, leer, lyre, reel, rely.

-2 letters: eel, ere, eye, lee, ley, lye, ree, rye.

-3 letters: el, er, re, ye.

+1 letter: celery, eerily, freely, merely, yeller, yelper.

+2 letters: cheerly, deerfly, delayer, eagerly, elderly, erectly, erosely, greenly, hellery, jewelry, layered, lechery, leerily, pedlery, peytrel, queerly, recycle, reedily, relayed, replevy, restyle, revelry, sealery, sheerly, tersely, yellers, yelpers, yielder, yodeler.

+3 letters: aversely, beryline, breezily, celerity, cheerily, cleverly, creepily, delayers, delivery, demurely, easterly, employer, empyreal, entirely, expertly, eyeliner, fiercely, greedily, greenfly, lawyered, layerage, leathery, legendry, legerity, levogyre, lientery, meagerly, meagrely, motleyer, parleyed, parleyer, peddlery, peytrels, pterylae, readerly, recently, recycled, recycler, recycles, redeploy, reemploy, reflexly, remotely, replayed, restyled, restyles, secretly, securely, serenely, severely, smeltery, tenderly, volleyer, westerly, yarmelke, yearlies, yellower, yielders, yodelers, yodeller.

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