sleight of handn.

Forms: Also sleight-of-hand.

Etymology: sleight n.¹

a. Dexterity or skill in using the hand or hands for any purpose; expertness in manipulation or manual action.

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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > a bodily skill > manual skill > dexterity

hagherlaikc1175

sleight1390

sleight of handa1500

dexterity1548

manage1598

dexterousness1622

neat-handedness1839

c1400 Destr. Troy 10306 Achilles..flange at the knight, [and] Slough hym full slawthly with sleght of his hond.

c1425 Noah's Ark in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 24 Of hand to have such slight, To make ship less or mare.]

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxiii. 292 Let now se who dos the best With any slegthe of hand.

1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical x. 105 There's nothing to be learn'd there [i.e. at gaming-houses], unless it be Slight of Hand,..sometimes at the Expence of all our Money.

1760 S. Johnson Idler 5 Jan. 1 By Slight of Hand, or Nimbleness of Foot, all these Wonders can be performed.

1825 J. R. McCulloch Princ. Polit. Econ. ii. ii. 87 A peculiar play of the muscles, or sleight of hand, is necessary to perform the simplest operation in the..most expeditious manner.

1862 Fraser's Mag. July 75 A power not fitful or got forth by any sleight-of-hand, but resolutely worked for.

figurative and in extended use.1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical v. 50 Here Fools by Slight of Hand, are converted into Wits.1829 T. Carlyle Crit. & Misc. Ess. (1840) II. 56 Were the public once to penetrate into this his [a playwright's] sleight of hand, it were all over with him.

b. In reference to jugglery, conjuring, or performances of a similar kind.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun]

colea1307

jugglingc1380

tregetryc1380

jugglerya1400

tregettingc1440

legerdemaina1450

jocularya1500

conveyance1531

prestigiation?c1550

conjuring1577

figgum1631

prestigion1635

sleight of handa1640

hocus-pocus1647

sleight1664

jugglementa1708

thaumaturgy1727

conjurationa1734

ventriloquism1797

magic1831

prestidigitation1841

hocus1854

conjury1855

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > a bodily skill > manual skill > dexterity > specifically in juggling or conjuring

sleight of handa1640

sleight1664

a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Beggers Bush iii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ll2/1 Will ye see any feates of activity, Some sleight of hand, leigerdemaine?

1690 London Gaz. No. 2539/4 William Bradshaw..pretending to slight of Hand and swallowing Knives.

1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1879) I. 395/2 Some of them were forced to get their bread by showing tricks of sleight of hand.

1853 C. Brontë Villette II. xxiii. 171 You don't know my skill in sleight of hand: I might practise as a conjuror if I liked.

2. With a and plural. A dexterous trick or feat; a piece of nimble juggling or conjuring.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] > a trick

colea1307

playa1475

conveyance1534

legerdemain?1544

prank1555

convoyance1578

sleight1596

pass1599

paviea1605

trick1609

sleight of handa1626

hocus-pocus1647

juggle1664

hocus-trickc1680

passe-passe1687

jugglementa1708

thaumaturgics1721

necromantics1745

conjuration1820

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > a bodily skill > manual skill > dexterity > act or feat of

dexterity1577

trick1609

sleight of handa1626

a1626 W. Rowley Birth of Merlin (1662) sig. F1 I must keep some other company if you have these slights of hand.

1680 R. L'Estrange tr. Erasmus 20 Select Colloquies ii. 20 While they pretend to lay one Gift upon the Altar, by a marvellous slight of hand they'll steal away another.

1717 tr. A. F. Frézier Voy. South-Sea 166 The Experiments that have been seen made..are fraudulent Sleights of Hand.

1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend ii. 87 To make a murderer out of a prince, A sleight of hand I learned long since!

1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh i. 15 Fine sleights of hand And unimagined fingering.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations.

a. In sense ‘using or employing sleight of hand’, as sleight-of-hand man, sleight-of-hand professor, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] > juggler or conjurer

jugglera1100

tregetour1340

hey-passa1593

prestigiator1595

baffler1606

feat-worker1617

hocus-pocus1624

hocus1647

chirosophist1652

fascinator1677

legerdemain1696

prestidigitator1712

conjurer1727

sleight-of-hand man1757

nimble-fingers1781

sleight-of-hand professor1801

legerdemainist1830

magician1834

illusionist1850

jongleura1851

wizard1859

deceptionist1883

mentalist1906

1757 J. H. Grose Voy. E.-Indies x. 185 The jugglers, or slight-of-hand-men greatly excel whatever I have seen or heard of them in Europe.

1801 Sporting Mag. 17 209 The exhibitions of a slight-of-hand professor.

1875 Chambers's Jrnl. 12 66 A sleight-of-hand gentleman is selling purses with half-crowns in them for one shilling each.

b. In sense ‘performed by sleight of hand, artifice, etc.’, as sleight-of-hand arrangement, sleight-of-hand juggling, sleight-of-hand trick, etc.

ΚΠ

1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. vi. 114 One of those slight-of-hand arrangements, which still sometimes took place in that once lawless district.

1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iii. viii. 135 You are a juggler; and the deceptions of your slight-of-hand tricks depend upon instantaneous motions.

1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch vii. 64 A punch and puppie-show business, and other slight-of-hand work.

1867 J. Ruskin Time & Tide vi. §26 Then there was some fairly good sleight-of-hand juggling of little interest.

Derivatives

sleight-hand n. elliptically. Also attributive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun]

listOE

wiþercraftc1175

wilta1230

craftc1275

sleightc1275

engine?a1300

quaintisec1300

vaidiec1325

wilec1374

cautelc1375

sophistryc1385

quaintnessc1390

voisdie1390

havilon?a1400

foxeryc1400

subtletyc1400

undercraftc1400

practic?a1439

callidityc1450

policec1450

wilinessc1450

craftiness1484

gin1543

cautility1554

cunning1582

cautelousness1584

panurgy1586

policy1587

foxshipa1616

cunningnessa1625

subdolousness1635

dexterity1656

insidiousnessa1677

versuteness1685

pawkiness1687

sleight-hand1792

pawkery1820

vulpinism1851

downiness1865

foxiness1875

slimness1899

slypussness1908

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adjective] > having or characterized by bodily skill > skilled with hands

handya1525

fine-fingeredc1555

sure-handed1555

nimble-fingered1629

neat-fingered1641

neat-handed1645

sleight-hand1792

1792 J. Wolcot Odes in Wks. (1816) II. 390 Sweet are of slight-hand Barrington the tales.

1830 J. Rayson Misc. Poems, Songs, & Ballads 46 'Tis whuspert by sleet han' he's meade lots o' money.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	sleight of hand
释义	sleight of handn. Forms: Also sleight-of-hand. Etymology: sleight n.¹ 1. a. Dexterity or skill in using the hand or hands for any purpose; expertness in manipulation or manual action. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > a bodily skill > manual skill > dexterity hagherlaikc1175 sleight1390 sleight of handa1500 dexterity1548 manage1598 dexterousness1622 neat-handedness1839 c1400 Destr. Troy 10306 Achilles..flange at the knight, [and] Slough hym full slawthly with sleght of his hond. c1425 Noah's Ark in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 24 Of hand to have such slight, To make ship less or mare.] a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxiii. 292 Let now se who dos the best With any slegthe of hand. 1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical x. 105 There's nothing to be learn'd there [i.e. at gaming-houses], unless it be Slight of Hand,..sometimes at the Expence of all our Money. 1760 S. Johnson Idler 5 Jan. 1 By Slight of Hand, or Nimbleness of Foot, all these Wonders can be performed. 1825 J. R. McCulloch Princ. Polit. Econ. ii. ii. 87 A peculiar play of the muscles, or sleight of hand, is necessary to perform the simplest operation in the..most expeditious manner. 1862 Fraser's Mag. July 75 A power not fitful or got forth by any sleight-of-hand, but resolutely worked for. figurative and in extended use.1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical v. 50 Here Fools by Slight of Hand, are converted into Wits.1829 T. Carlyle Crit. & Misc. Ess. (1840) II. 56 Were the public once to penetrate into this his [a playwright's] sleight of hand, it were all over with him. b. In reference to jugglery, conjuring, or performances of a similar kind. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] colea1307 jugglingc1380 tregetryc1380 jugglerya1400 tregettingc1440 legerdemaina1450 jocularya1500 conveyance1531 prestigiation?c1550 conjuring1577 figgum1631 prestigion1635 sleight of handa1640 hocus-pocus1647 sleight1664 jugglementa1708 thaumaturgy1727 conjurationa1734 ventriloquism1797 magic1831 prestidigitation1841 hocus1854 conjury1855 the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > a bodily skill > manual skill > dexterity > specifically in juggling or conjuring sleight of handa1640 sleight1664 a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Beggers Bush iii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ll2/1 Will ye see any feates of activity, Some sleight of hand, leigerdemaine? 1690 London Gaz. No. 2539/4 William Bradshaw..pretending to slight of Hand and swallowing Knives. 1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1879) I. 395/2 Some of them were forced to get their bread by showing tricks of sleight of hand. 1853 C. Brontë Villette II. xxiii. 171 You don't know my skill in sleight of hand: I might practise as a conjuror if I liked. 2. With a and plural. A dexterous trick or feat; a piece of nimble juggling or conjuring. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] > a trick colea1307 playa1475 conveyance1534 legerdemain?1544 prank1555 convoyance1578 sleight1596 pass1599 paviea1605 trick1609 sleight of handa1626 hocus-pocus1647 juggle1664 hocus-trickc1680 passe-passe1687 jugglementa1708 thaumaturgics1721 necromantics1745 conjuration1820 the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > a bodily skill > manual skill > dexterity > act or feat of dexterity1577 trick1609 sleight of handa1626 a1626 W. Rowley Birth of Merlin (1662) sig. F1 I must keep some other company if you have these slights of hand. 1680 R. L'Estrange tr. Erasmus 20 Select Colloquies ii. 20 While they pretend to lay one Gift upon the Altar, by a marvellous slight of hand they'll steal away another. 1717 tr. A. F. Frézier Voy. South-Sea 166 The Experiments that have been seen made..are fraudulent Sleights of Hand. 1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend ii. 87 To make a murderer out of a prince, A sleight of hand I learned long since! 1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh i. 15 Fine sleights of hand And unimagined fingering. Compounds attributive and in other combinations. a. In sense ‘using or employing sleight of hand’, as sleight-of-hand man, sleight-of-hand professor, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] > juggler or conjurer jugglera1100 tregetour1340 hey-passa1593 prestigiator1595 baffler1606 feat-worker1617 hocus-pocus1624 hocus1647 chirosophist1652 fascinator1677 legerdemain1696 prestidigitator1712 conjurer1727 sleight-of-hand man1757 nimble-fingers1781 sleight-of-hand professor1801 legerdemainist1830 magician1834 illusionist1850 jongleura1851 wizard1859 deceptionist1883 mentalist1906 1757 J. H. Grose Voy. E.-Indies x. 185 The jugglers, or slight-of-hand-men greatly excel whatever I have seen or heard of them in Europe. 1801 Sporting Mag. 17 209 The exhibitions of a slight-of-hand professor. 1875 Chambers's Jrnl. 12 66 A sleight-of-hand gentleman is selling purses with half-crowns in them for one shilling each. b. In sense ‘performed by sleight of hand, artifice, etc.’, as sleight-of-hand arrangement, sleight-of-hand juggling, sleight-of-hand trick, etc. ΚΠ 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. vi. 114 One of those slight-of-hand arrangements, which still sometimes took place in that once lawless district. 1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iii. viii. 135 You are a juggler; and the deceptions of your slight-of-hand tricks depend upon instantaneous motions. 1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch vii. 64 A punch and puppie-show business, and other slight-of-hand work. 1867 J. Ruskin Time & Tide vi. §26 Then there was some fairly good sleight-of-hand juggling of little interest. Derivatives sleight-hand n. elliptically. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] listOE wiþercraftc1175 wilta1230 craftc1275 sleightc1275 engine?a1300 quaintisec1300 vaidiec1325 wilec1374 cautelc1375 sophistryc1385 quaintnessc1390 voisdie1390 havilon?a1400 foxeryc1400 subtletyc1400 undercraftc1400 practic?a1439 callidityc1450 policec1450 wilinessc1450 craftiness1484 gin1543 cautility1554 cunning1582 cautelousness1584 panurgy1586 policy1587 foxshipa1616 cunningnessa1625 subdolousness1635 dexterity1656 insidiousnessa1677 versuteness1685 pawkiness1687 sleight-hand1792 pawkery1820 vulpinism1851 downiness1865 foxiness1875 slimness1899 slypussness1908 the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adjective] > having or characterized by bodily skill > skilled with hands handya1525 fine-fingeredc1555 sure-handed1555 nimble-fingered1629 neat-fingered1641 neat-handed1645 sleight-hand1792 1792 J. Wolcot Odes in Wks. (1816) II. 390 Sweet are of slight-hand Barrington the tales. 1830 J. Rayson Misc. Poems, Songs, & Ballads 46 'Tis whuspert by sleet han' he's meade lots o' money. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.a1500
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