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sly-boot(s colloq.
Also slyboot(s.
[f. sly a. + boots1 3.]
A sly, cunning, or crafty person; one who does things on the sly. Freq. in mild or jocular use, and usually in plural form.
pl.a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Sly-boots, a seeming Silly, but subtil Fellow. 1701Cibber Love Makes a Man ii. i, Look, look,—look, o' Sly-boots; what, she knows nothing of the Matter! 1774Goldsm. Retal. 28 That sly⁓boots was cursedly cunning to hide 'em. 1833T. Hook Parson's Dau. iii. ii, Had there been any body to watch the venerable sly-boots. 1897Rhoscomyl White Rose Arno 49 But, Ithel, you are a slyboots too; pretending to read for the law!
transf.1838Emerson Address Literary Ethics Wks. (Bohn) II. 212 Truth is such a flyaway, such a slyboots. 1894Hall Caine Manxman iii. xxi, ‘Oh, but the sun is an old sly-boots’, she answered.
sing.1730Swift Dan Jackson's Reply Wks. 1755 IV. i. 256, I much suspect you mean the latter, Ah sly-boot! 1810Splendid Follies I. 97 Yes you do,..you young slyboot, only you won't understand. |