sleighty

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English

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Etymology

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

Adjective

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sleighty (comparative more sleighty, superlative most sleighty)

  1. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From sleighte +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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sleighty

  1. sly, sneaky, clever

Descendants

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  • English: sleighty (obsolete)

References

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