slyboots
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who is clever or shrewd, especially one who is stealthy, manipulative, and rather charming.
British usage
Example Sentences
- "But Truth is such a flyaway, such a slyboots, so untransportable and unbarrelable a commodity, that it is as bad to catch as light."
- ""Oh, you sly-boots!" says the Countess. "Guess you come after the old lady's money!""
- "You're such a slyboots, old cocky. I could kiss you."
- "Peter: All we gotta do is tell a little white lie. Just go with it. [dials phone] Is this the Grant-a-Dream Foundation? My son Chris is dying! Chris: Holy crap, no! Oh, my God! Peter: That was the lie. Chris: Oh, you slyboots."
- "This slyboots took me for a ton of money, made me do whatever she wanted."
- "Cruz was obviously analogizing Bernie Sanders to the Bolsheviks and Hillary Clinton to the Mensheviks. The oleaginous Texan is an erudite slyboots, but his history is off-kilter."
Etymology
Usage
- British usage