This week’s theme
Words related to clothing

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top-hat
coattail
hairshirt
stuffed shirt
slyboots

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Miscellaneous words

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PRONUNCIATION:

(SLY-boots)

MEANING:

noun: Someone who is clever or crafty in a playful or engaging way.

ETYMOLOGY:

From sly (cunning), from Old Norse sloegr (cunning) + boots (fellow), as in lazyboots. Earliest documented use: 1699.

USAGE:

“A real slyboots he is, if you take my meaning, Your Grace. He would have dropped the boot and bent down low to fetch it, all the while trying to see where he shouldn’t ought see, my apologies to your lady.”
Kasey Michaels; How To Beguile a Beauty; Harlequin; 2010.

See more usage examples of slyboots in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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