sleighty

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English sleighty; equivalent to sleight +‎ -y.

Adjective

sleighty (comparative more sleighty, superlative most sleighty)

(obsolete) cunning; sly
- 1615, W. Lawson, Country Housewifes Garden:
  You might sit in your Mount, and angle a peckled Trout, or sleighty Eele.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sleighty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Leightys, Lightsey

Middle English

Alternative forms

slegti, sleiȝti, sleiȝty, sleihti, sleyghty, sleythi, sliȝty

Etymology

From sleighte +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈslixtiː/, /ˈsliːxtiː/, /ˈslɛi̯xtiː/

Adjective

sleighty

sly, sneaky, clever

Descendants

English: sleighty (obsolete)

References

“sleightī, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-05.

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