thievious

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From thieve +‎ -ious.

Adjective[edit]

thievious (comparative more thievious, superlative most thievious)

  1. Characteristic of a thief or thievery; thievish
    • 1870, The New Eclectic Magazine, volume 6, page 540:
      I did want her to marry. It look like a pity for her not to git married. And now she is married, and what have she married? A nasty, dad-blasted, thievious Yankee; []
    • 1883, Richard Malcolm Johnston, Dukesborough Tales, page 29:
      “Triplet, you rascal! You may laugh, but I don't want the gun. He may keep it, and do what he pleases with it, even to blowin' out his own thievious brains with it, for what I keer. He's welcome to the gun. You, Triplet!”

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