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Slyboots

Definition: Slyboots

Slyboots

Noun

1. A shifty deceptive person.

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

Date "slyboots" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)


Synonyms: Slyboots

Synonyms: dodger (n), fox (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Slyboots

English words defined with "slyboots": Sly boots. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Slyboots

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Slyboots

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

slyboots

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Slyboots

Language Translations for "slyboots"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

tinëzar (catlike, crafty, foxy, insidious, shifty, sly, sly person, sneak, sneaky, stealthy, underground, underhand), dredharak (cunning, dodger, guileful, shifty, slippery, tricky), dhelparak (cunning, foxy, sleeky, sly). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏الماكر شخص ذو مكر. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

хитрец (coon, dodger, file, operator, shuffler, slicker, smart aleck, smarty). (various references)

   

French

  

malin (sly). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

titokzatoskodó alak. (various references)

   

Italian

  

furbacchione (dodger, slicker, wangler). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ybootsslay

   

Portuguese

  

velhaco (arrant knave, caitiff, deceiver, knavish, loon, machiavellian, rip, rogue, roguish, wheeler-dealer), espartalhão (sly). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

şmecher (acute, arch, artful, astute, canny, catchy, clever, crafty, cunning, cute, deep, dodger, downy, leery, sharp, shaver, shifty, slick, slippery, sly, wise guy), şiret (arch, artful, canny, cord, crafty, cunning, fox-like, gimp, guileful, lace, pawkily, pawky, sharp, shifty, sly, slyly, string, subtle, tricky, wily). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

хитрец. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

prepredenko. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

taimado (deep, devious, sly). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kurnaz (arch, artful, astute, cagey, 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, smart, subtile, tricky, vulpine, weasel, wheeler dealer, wide awake, wily, wise guy), akıl kumkuması. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

хитрун (contriver, dodger, shifter). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

anh ch ng ranh mãnh, anh ch ng láu. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Slyboots

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-l-o-o-s-s-t-y"

-2 letters: boosts, sotols, stools.

-3 letters: blots, bolos, bolts, boost, boots, booty, bossy, boyos, lobos, looby, loots, lossy, lotos, obols, slobs, slots, solos, soots, sooty, sotol, stobs, stool, tools, toyos.

-4 letters: blot, bolo, bolt, boos, boot, boss, bots, boyo, boys, lobo, lobs, loos, loot, loss, lost, lots, obol, oots, slob, slot, sobs, solo, sols, soot.

 Words containing the letters "b-l-o-o-s-s-t-y"
 

+2 letters: bootlessly, stylebooks.

 

+3 letters: bryologists.

 

+4 letters: boisterously, bottomlessly, polysorbates, robustiously.

 

+5 letters: blastomycoses, blastomycosis, embryologists, obsolescently, octosyllabics, octosyllables.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Slyboots


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6C 79 62 6F 6F 74 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    .-..    -.--.    -...    ---    ---    -    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101100 01111001 01100010 01101111 01101111 01110100 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#108 &#121 &#98 &#111 &#111 &#116 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006C 0079 0062 006F 006F 0074 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5378916881818685

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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