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Definition: Slyboots |
SlybootsNoun1. 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: SlybootsSynonyms: dodger (n), fox (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Slyboots |
| English words defined with "slyboots": Sly boots. (references) |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
slyboots | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 velhaco (arrant knave, caitiff, deceiver, knavish, loon, machiavellian, rip, rogue, roguish, wheeler-dealer), espartalhão (sly). (various references) 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) хитрец. (various references) prepredenko. (various references) taimado (deep, devious, sly). (various references) 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) хитрун (contriver, dodger, shifter). (various references) anh ch ng ranh mãnh, anh ch ng láu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101100 01111001 01100010 01101111 01101111 01110100 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S l y b o o t s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006C 0079 0062 006F 006F 0074 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5378916881818685 |
| 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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