wilyadj.n.adv.

Brit.

/ˈwʌɪli/, U.S.

/ˈwaɪli/

Forms: Middle English wili, wyli, Middle English wyle, Middle English–1500s wyly, (Middle English, 1500s wely), Middle English wilye, ( whily, Middle English–1500s wylly, Middle English, 1600s willy), Middle English–1600s (1700s Scottish) wylie, 1500s wylye, ( whyly, Scottish vylie), 1500s–1600s wilie, 1700s wiley, Middle English– wily.

Etymology: < wile n. + -y suffix¹.

1. Full of or characterized by wiles; crafty, cunning, sly, artful.

a. Of a person or animal (or figurative of a thing personified).Rarely in a good sense: Astute, clever.

ΘΚΠ

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

warec888

craftyOE

hinderyeapc1000

yepec1000

foxc1175

slya1200

hinderc1200

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wrenchfulc1225

wiltfula1250

wilyc1330

subtle1340

cautelous138.

sleightful1380

subtile1387

enginousa1393

wilfula1400

wilyc1407

sleighty1412

serpentinec1422

ginnousa1425

wittya1425

semyc1440

artificial?a1475

sleight1495

slapea1500

shrewdc1525

craftly1526

foxy1528

gleering?1533

foxish1535

insidious1545

vafrous1548

wily beguile1550

wilely1556

fine1559

todly1571

practic1585

subdolous1588

captious1590

witryff1598

cautel1606

cunninga1616

versute1616

shiftfula1618

artificious1624

insidiary1625

canny1628

lapwing-like1638

pawky?a1640

tricksome1648

callid1656

versutious1660

artful1663

slim1674

dexterous1701

trickish1705

supple1710

slid1719

vulpinary1721

tricksy1766

trickful1775

sneck-drawing1786

tricky1786

louche1819

sneck-drawn1820

slyish1828

vulpine1830

kokum1839

spidery1843

dodgy1861

ladino1863

carney1881

slinky1951

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 9849 He was boþe wyly & sley.

c1386 G. Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋252 The serpent that was moost wily of alle othere beestes.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11807 Þis herods..þat wili [Fairf. wely] wolf.

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1728 So Reniarde watȝ wyle.

c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Monk's Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 52 No poure Cloistrer ne no novys But a gouernour wily and wys.

1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur iv. xxvi. 155 And there he was in grete peryl, for the gyant was a wyly fyghter.

1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. vii. B j b Be he..wyly to deffende hym fro theym, & wysely to assaille them.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Qiiii^v Lyke as the sparowe the wyly byrde escheweth all panters and snares.

1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades ii. 23 To finde the wilie Vlysses straight downe she tooke hir walke.

1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 285 As willy as a foxe.

1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) 177 The wily spirits of the Armoniack.

1729 R. Savage Wanderer i. 95 Mark! wiley Fowlers meditate their Doom.

1807 G. Crabbe Library (rev. ed.) in Poems 146 Here wily Jesuits, simple Quakers meet.

1878 P. Bayne Chief Actors Puritan Revol. ii. 49 The brilliant wily Welshman found himself sharply repelled.

1905 F. Treves Other Side of Lantern (1906) iii. viii. 225 In the..night the wily tide will glide a shoal across the fairway.

b. Of personal attributes, actions, etc.

ΘΚΠ

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

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craftyOE

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wittya1425

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subdolous1588

captious1590

witryff1598

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cunninga1616

versute1616

shiftfula1618

artificious1624

insidiary1625

canny1628

lapwing-like1638

pawky?a1640

tricksome1648

callid1656

versutious1660

artful1663

slim1674

dexterous1701

trickish1705

supple1710

slid1719

vulpinary1721

tricksy1766

trickful1775

sneck-drawing1786

tricky1786

louche1819

sneck-drawn1820

slyish1828

vulpine1830

kokum1839

spidery1843

dodgy1861

ladino1863

carney1881

slinky1951

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [adjective] > specifically of actions, qualities, etc.

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serpentical1546

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shrewd1589

vulpine1628

insidiating1632

serpentic1661

serpentary1681

artful1865

c1407 J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte 2758 Hercules..by his whily sleyght Bar away the ryche fruyt.

c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn Prol. l. 444 Tapsters, & oþer such, þat hath wyly wittis To pik mennys pursis.

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxix. 139 She had him caught in suche a wyly snare.

1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Ciiij^v The wily vsyng of wordes that in sence haue double meanyng.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage iv. iii. 298 Ventidius..by a wily Stratageme, counterfeiting flight and feare.

1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 39 The wily suttleties and refluxes of mans thoughts.

1721 A. Ramsay Prospect of Plenty 33 Artfu' Nets, and Fishers' wylie Skill.

1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. xvi. 243 Judas's averted and wily face.

1905 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Feb. 45/3 An imaginary line..offered no real obstacle to a determined and wily advance.

†2. elliptical as n. A wily person or animal; in quot. c1460 as proper name (cf. Compounds 1). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

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

foxc1000

yepea1250

slies1297

wily-man1393

wilyc1400

sneck-drawer1402

piea1425

wily-piec1450

artificera1500

tod?a1513

Sim Subtlea1529

serpentinea1533

prata1542

wily beguile1550

wily-wat?1550

elfa1556

dog fox1609

saccularian1652

sly-cap1681

sly-boots1699

craftsmaster1717

scunge1824

sleeveen1834

chickaleary1869

sneck-draw1886

rusée1889

slypuss1942

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1905 Þay fel on hym alle & woried me þis wyly wyth a wroth noyse.

c1460 Wisdom 607 in Macro Plays 55 Yt ys clepyde wysdom: ‘ware þat!’ quod Wyly.

†3. as adv. Craftily, cunningly: = wilily adv. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

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

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craftilyc1225

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wilyc1400

subtilelyc1405

ginnouslya1425

semylyc1440

serpentlya1450

small?c1450

cautelously1477

politicly1477

sleightfullyc1480

artificiously1536

insidiously1545

sleightily1549

artificially1566

cunningly1603

versutely1616

artfully1631

subdolously1638

serpentinely1656

slimlya1680

pawkily1714

politically1764

trickfullyc1790

trickishly1824

leerily1859

dodgily1868

trickily1895

foxily1933

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1452 Aþel vessel, Þat wyth so curious a crafte coruen was wyly.

1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) Ep. Ded. sig. Aii All these..rabblement of rakehelles, that..do..gayne great almes in all places where they wyly wander.

1574 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlii. 59 Thocht for thair tyme sum wylie winkit.

1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Wily, craftily.

Compounds

C1. Appellations for a crafty or cunning fellow.

† wily-man n. Obsolete (as a proper name).

ΘΚΠ

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

foxc1000

yepea1250

slies1297

wily-man1393

wilyc1400

sneck-drawer1402

piea1425

wily-piec1450

artificera1500

tod?a1513

Sim Subtlea1529

serpentinea1533

prata1542

wily beguile1550

wily-wat?1550

elfa1556

dog fox1609

saccularian1652

sly-cap1681

sly-boots1699

craftsmaster1717

scunge1824

sleeveen1834

chickaleary1869

sneck-draw1886

rusée1889

slypuss1942

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. v. 27 Then waryn wysman and wyly-man his felawe Fayn were to folwen hem.

† wily-pie n. [pie n.¹] Obsolete

ΘΚΠ

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

foxc1000

yepea1250

slies1297

wily-man1393

wilyc1400

sneck-drawer1402

piea1425

wily-piec1450

artificera1500

tod?a1513

Sim Subtlea1529

serpentinea1533

prata1542

wily beguile1550

wily-wat?1550

elfa1556

dog fox1609

saccularian1652

sly-cap1681

sly-boots1699

craftsmaster1717

scunge1824

sleeveen1834

chickaleary1869

sneck-draw1886

rusée1889

slypuss1942

c1450 Chance of Dice 147 in Englische Studien 59 9 Lorde verrely ye ben a wyly pye.

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 321^v One Accius..a wylie pye, and a feloe full of shiftes.

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 244 b Osorius is a wylypye, and will not be destitute of a starting hoale.

1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. ii. iii. 149/1 Oh madam (saith he) the wiliest pie of all, these are no pies but soules in purgatorie that craue releefe.]

† wily-wat n. [wat n.¹] Obsolete

ΘΚΠ

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

foxc1000

yepea1250

slies1297

wily-man1393

wilyc1400

sneck-drawer1402

piea1425

wily-piec1450

artificera1500

tod?a1513

Sim Subtlea1529

serpentinea1533

prata1542

wily beguile1550

wily-wat?1550

elfa1556

dog fox1609

saccularian1652

sly-cap1681

sly-boots1699

craftsmaster1717

scunge1824

sleeveen1834

chickaleary1869

sneck-draw1886

rusée1889

slypuss1942

?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst 73 Ye are a wyly watte in the kyngdome of crafte and generacion of falshede.

a1563 J. Bale King Johan (1969) i. 60 Ye are a wylly wat and wander here ful warelye.

C2.

† wily beguile n. Obsolete also frequently in jingling form wily beguily (and similar expressions) originally in to play wily beguile oneself (also later in various corrupt forms), to act wilily in such a way as to be oneself beguiled, to be entrapped by one's own craftiness; hence wily beguily (rarely wily beguile, gilie, guile) as noun phrase (a) a person who acts thus, or (simply) who acts wilily or craftily; (b) an act of this kind, or (simply) a wily act or action, a crafty trick, cunning trickery; rarely as adjective, an emphatic extension of wily.

ΘΚΠ

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

warec888

craftyOE

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slya1200

hinderc1200

quaint?c1225

wrenchfulc1225

wiltfula1250

wilyc1330

subtle1340

cautelous138.

sleightful1380

subtile1387

enginousa1393

wilfula1400

wilyc1407

sleighty1412

serpentinec1422

ginnousa1425

wittya1425

semyc1440

artificial?a1475

sleight1495

slapea1500

shrewdc1525

craftly1526

foxy1528

gleering?1533

foxish1535

insidious1545

vafrous1548

wily beguile1550

wilely1556

fine1559

todly1571

practic1585

subdolous1588

captious1590

witryff1598

cautel1606

cunninga1616

versute1616

shiftfula1618

artificious1624

insidiary1625

canny1628

lapwing-like1638

pawky?a1640

tricksome1648

callid1656

versutious1660

artful1663

slim1674

dexterous1701

trickish1705

supple1710

slid1719

vulpinary1721

tricksy1766

trickful1775

sneck-drawing1786

tricky1786

louche1819

sneck-drawn1820

slyish1828

vulpine1830

kokum1839

spidery1843

dodgy1861

ladino1863

carney1881

slinky1951

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

wily beguile1550

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

foxc1000

yepea1250

slies1297

wily-man1393

wilyc1400

sneck-drawer1402

piea1425

wily-piec1450

artificera1500

tod?a1513

Sim Subtlea1529

serpentinea1533

prata1542

wily beguile1550

wily-wat?1550

elfa1556

dog fox1609

saccularian1652

sly-cap1681

sly-boots1699

craftsmaster1717

scunge1824

sleeveen1834

chickaleary1869

sneck-draw1886

rusée1889

slypuss1942

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > be cunning or act cunningly [verb (intransitive)] > so as to beguile oneself

wily beguile1550

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > act fraudulently, cheat [verb (intransitive)]

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defraudc1384

to take (the) advantagea1393

false1393

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fineer1765

gag1781

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skinch1891

finagle1926

1550 J. Heywood Hundred Epigrammes xxxiv. sig. Biv^v To whiche smart mocke, and wily begylyng, He..saied [etc.].

1555 H. Latimer Let. 15 May in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. ii. xxxvi. 103 Let Men beware that they play not wylye begile themselves, as I feare me they do that go to Masse.

1555 H. Latimer Let. 15 May in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. ii. xxxvi. 103 Thus they play wyly, beguylyng them selves.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 193/2 While they thinke to deceaue the simple, these wylye begely most of all deceaue them selues.

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 303 b Sufficiently instructed in those your wyly beguilye and..to well acquainted with your ambitious hawtynes.

?1589 T. Nashe Almond for Parrat 17 b The wicked..being so full of their wilie gilies.

1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 60 Smiles, Wyly Guiles, queint wittie-prettie Toyes.

1618 N. Breton Court & Country C 4 b What is the end of all wily beguily? seeking to deceiue other, deceiu'd himselfe most of all.

1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 137 It shall go hard, but our wily-beguily Wits, will one way or other finde an euasion.

1625 J. Robinson Observ. xv. 102 Such wily~beguilies may for a time..get the opinion of prudent, and politick persons.

1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 101 Wilie beguilie deceives himself.

C3. Combinations of the adjective or adverb, as wily-headed, wily-witty adjs.

ΚΠ

a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 17 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) They are so cautelous and wylie-headed.

1624 J. Gee Foot out of Snare App. 108 I shall begin to recant my opinion of his wily-witty worth.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	wily
释义	wilyadj.n.adv. Brit. /ˈwʌɪli/, U.S. /ˈwaɪli/ Forms: Middle English wili, wyli, Middle English wyle, Middle English–1500s wyly, (Middle English, 1500s wely), Middle English wilye, ( whily, Middle English–1500s wylly, Middle English, 1600s willy), Middle English–1600s (1700s Scottish) wylie, 1500s wylye, ( whyly, Scottish vylie), 1500s–1600s wilie, 1700s wiley, Middle English– wily. Etymology: < wile n. + -y suffix¹. 1. Full of or characterized by wiles; crafty, cunning, sly, artful. a. Of a person or animal (or figurative of a thing personified).Rarely in a good sense: Astute, clever. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [adjective] warec888 craftyOE hinderyeapc1000 yepec1000 foxc1175 slya1200 hinderc1200 quaint?c1225 wrenchfulc1225 wiltfula1250 wilyc1330 subtle1340 cautelous138. sleightful1380 subtile1387 enginousa1393 wilfula1400 wilyc1407 sleighty1412 serpentinec1422 ginnousa1425 wittya1425 semyc1440 artificial?a1475 sleight1495 slapea1500 shrewdc1525 craftly1526 foxy1528 gleering?1533 foxish1535 insidious1545 vafrous1548 wily beguile1550 wilely1556 fine1559 todly1571 practic1585 subdolous1588 captious1590 witryff1598 cautel1606 cunninga1616 versute1616 shiftfula1618 artificious1624 insidiary1625 canny1628 lapwing-like1638 pawky?a1640 tricksome1648 callid1656 versutious1660 artful1663 slim1674 dexterous1701 trickish1705 supple1710 slid1719 vulpinary1721 tricksy1766 trickful1775 sneck-drawing1786 tricky1786 louche1819 sneck-drawn1820 slyish1828 vulpine1830 kokum1839 spidery1843 dodgy1861 ladino1863 carney1881 slinky1951 c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 9849 He was boþe wyly & sley. c1386 G. Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋252 The serpent that was moost wily of alle othere beestes. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11807 Þis herods..þat wili [Fairf. wely] wolf. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1728 So Reniarde watȝ wyle. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Monk's Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 52 No poure Cloistrer ne no novys But a gouernour wily and wys. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur iv. xxvi. 155 And there he was in grete peryl, for the gyant was a wyly fyghter. 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. vii. B j b Be he..wyly to deffende hym fro theym, & wysely to assaille them. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Qiiii^v Lyke as the sparowe the wyly byrde escheweth all panters and snares. 1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades ii. 23 To finde the wilie Vlysses straight downe she tooke hir walke. 1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 285 As willy as a foxe. 1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) 177 The wily spirits of the Armoniack. 1729 R. Savage Wanderer i. 95 Mark! wiley Fowlers meditate their Doom. 1807 G. Crabbe Library (rev. ed.) in Poems 146 Here wily Jesuits, simple Quakers meet. 1878 P. Bayne Chief Actors Puritan Revol. ii. 49 The brilliant wily Welshman found himself sharply repelled. 1905 F. Treves Other Side of Lantern (1906) iii. viii. 225 In the..night the wily tide will glide a shoal across the fairway. b. Of personal attributes, actions, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [adjective] warec888 craftyOE hinderyeapc1000 yepec1000 foxc1175 slya1200 hinderc1200 quaint?c1225 wrenchfulc1225 wiltfula1250 wilyc1330 subtle1340 cautelous138. sleightful1380 subtile1387 enginousa1393 wilfula1400 wilyc1407 sleighty1412 serpentinec1422 ginnousa1425 wittya1425 semyc1440 artificial?a1475 sleight1495 slapea1500 shrewdc1525 craftly1526 foxy1528 gleering?1533 foxish1535 insidious1545 vafrous1548 wily beguile1550 wilely1556 fine1559 todly1571 practic1585 subdolous1588 captious1590 witryff1598 cautel1606 cunninga1616 versute1616 shiftfula1618 artificious1624 insidiary1625 canny1628 lapwing-like1638 pawky?a1640 tricksome1648 callid1656 versutious1660 artful1663 slim1674 dexterous1701 trickish1705 supple1710 slid1719 vulpinary1721 tricksy1766 trickful1775 sneck-drawing1786 tricky1786 louche1819 sneck-drawn1820 slyish1828 vulpine1830 kokum1839 spidery1843 dodgy1861 ladino1863 carney1881 slinky1951 the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [adjective] > specifically of actions, qualities, etc. craftyc1225 subtle1340 slyc1380 sleightlyc1402 subtilec1405 wilyc1407 sleighty1412 foxly1528 sleight1533 colubrinec1540 serpentical1546 fox-like1587 shrewd1589 vulpine1628 insidiating1632 serpentic1661 serpentary1681 artful1865 c1407 J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte 2758 Hercules..by his whily sleyght Bar away the ryche fruyt. c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn Prol. l. 444 Tapsters, & oþer such, þat hath wyly wittis To pik mennys pursis. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxix. 139 She had him caught in suche a wyly snare. 1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Ciiij^v The wily vsyng of wordes that in sence haue double meanyng. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage iv. iii. 298 Ventidius..by a wily Stratageme, counterfeiting flight and feare. 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 39 The wily suttleties and refluxes of mans thoughts. 1721 A. Ramsay Prospect of Plenty 33 Artfu' Nets, and Fishers' wylie Skill. 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. xvi. 243 Judas's averted and wily face. 1905 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Feb. 45/3 An imaginary line..offered no real obstacle to a determined and wily advance. †2. elliptical as n. A wily person or animal; in quot. c1460 as proper name (cf. Compounds 1). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > cunning person foxc1000 yepea1250 slies1297 wily-man1393 wilyc1400 sneck-drawer1402 piea1425 wily-piec1450 artificera1500 tod?a1513 Sim Subtlea1529 serpentinea1533 prata1542 wily beguile1550 wily-wat?1550 elfa1556 dog fox1609 saccularian1652 sly-cap1681 sly-boots1699 craftsmaster1717 scunge1824 sleeveen1834 chickaleary1869 sneck-draw1886 rusée1889 slypuss1942 c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1905 Þay fel on hym alle & woried me þis wyly wyth a wroth noyse. c1460 Wisdom 607 in Macro Plays 55 Yt ys clepyde wysdom: ‘ware þat!’ quod Wyly. †3. as adv. Craftily, cunningly: = wilily adv. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [adverb] foxlyc1175 craftilyc1225 craftlyc1225 slylyc1275 fellyc1300 quaintc1300 quaintlyc1325 sleightlyc1330 subtly1340 sly1370 espyinglya1382 wisely1390 wililya1400 wilyc1400 subtilelyc1405 ginnouslya1425 semylyc1440 serpentlya1450 small?c1450 cautelously1477 politicly1477 sleightfullyc1480 artificiously1536 insidiously1545 sleightily1549 artificially1566 cunningly1603 versutely1616 artfully1631 subdolously1638 serpentinely1656 slimlya1680 pawkily1714 politically1764 trickfullyc1790 trickishly1824 leerily1859 dodgily1868 trickily1895 foxily1933 c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1452 Aþel vessel, Þat wyth so curious a crafte coruen was wyly. 1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) Ep. Ded. sig. Aii All these..rabblement of rakehelles, that..do..gayne great almes in all places where they wyly wander. 1574 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlii. 59 Thocht for thair tyme sum wylie winkit. 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Wily, craftily. Compounds C1. Appellations for a crafty or cunning fellow. † wily-man n. Obsolete (as a proper name). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > cunning person foxc1000 yepea1250 slies1297 wily-man1393 wilyc1400 sneck-drawer1402 piea1425 wily-piec1450 artificera1500 tod?a1513 Sim Subtlea1529 serpentinea1533 prata1542 wily beguile1550 wily-wat?1550 elfa1556 dog fox1609 saccularian1652 sly-cap1681 sly-boots1699 craftsmaster1717 scunge1824 sleeveen1834 chickaleary1869 sneck-draw1886 rusée1889 slypuss1942 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. v. 27 Then waryn wysman and wyly-man his felawe Fayn were to folwen hem. † wily-pie n. [pie n.¹] Obsolete ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > cunning person foxc1000 yepea1250 slies1297 wily-man1393 wilyc1400 sneck-drawer1402 piea1425 wily-piec1450 artificera1500 tod?a1513 Sim Subtlea1529 serpentinea1533 prata1542 wily beguile1550 wily-wat?1550 elfa1556 dog fox1609 saccularian1652 sly-cap1681 sly-boots1699 craftsmaster1717 scunge1824 sleeveen1834 chickaleary1869 sneck-draw1886 rusée1889 slypuss1942 c1450 Chance of Dice 147 in Englische Studien 59 9 Lorde verrely ye ben a wyly pye. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 321^v One Accius..a wylie pye, and a feloe full of shiftes. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 244 b Osorius is a wylypye, and will not be destitute of a starting hoale. 1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. ii. iii. 149/1 Oh madam (saith he) the wiliest pie of all, these are no pies but soules in purgatorie that craue releefe.] † wily-wat n. [wat n.¹] Obsolete ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > cunning person foxc1000 yepea1250 slies1297 wily-man1393 wilyc1400 sneck-drawer1402 piea1425 wily-piec1450 artificera1500 tod?a1513 Sim Subtlea1529 serpentinea1533 prata1542 wily beguile1550 wily-wat?1550 elfa1556 dog fox1609 saccularian1652 sly-cap1681 sly-boots1699 craftsmaster1717 scunge1824 sleeveen1834 chickaleary1869 sneck-draw1886 rusée1889 slypuss1942 ?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst 73 Ye are a wyly watte in the kyngdome of crafte and generacion of falshede. a1563 J. Bale King Johan (1969) i. 60 Ye are a wylly wat and wander here ful warelye. C2. † wily beguile n. Obsolete also frequently in jingling form wily beguily (and similar expressions) originally in to play wily beguile oneself (also later in various corrupt forms), to act wilily in such a way as to be oneself beguiled, to be entrapped by one's own craftiness; hence wily beguily (rarely wily beguile, gilie, guile) as noun phrase (a) a person who acts thus, or (simply) who acts wilily or craftily; (b) an act of this kind, or (simply) a wily act or action, a crafty trick, cunning trickery; rarely as adjective, an emphatic extension of wily. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [adjective] warec888 craftyOE hinderyeapc1000 yepec1000 foxc1175 slya1200 hinderc1200 quaint?c1225 wrenchfulc1225 wiltfula1250 wilyc1330 subtle1340 cautelous138. sleightful1380 subtile1387 enginousa1393 wilfula1400 wilyc1407 sleighty1412 serpentinec1422 ginnousa1425 wittya1425 semyc1440 artificial?a1475 sleight1495 slapea1500 shrewdc1525 craftly1526 foxy1528 gleering?1533 foxish1535 insidious1545 vafrous1548 wily beguile1550 wilely1556 fine1559 todly1571 practic1585 subdolous1588 captious1590 witryff1598 cautel1606 cunninga1616 versute1616 shiftfula1618 artificious1624 insidiary1625 canny1628 lapwing-like1638 pawky?a1640 tricksome1648 callid1656 versutious1660 artful1663 slim1674 dexterous1701 trickish1705 supple1710 slid1719 vulpinary1721 tricksy1766 trickful1775 sneck-drawing1786 tricky1786 louche1819 sneck-drawn1820 slyish1828 vulpine1830 kokum1839 spidery1843 dodgy1861 ladino1863 carney1881 slinky1951 the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > an act of wily beguile1550 the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > cunning person foxc1000 yepea1250 slies1297 wily-man1393 wilyc1400 sneck-drawer1402 piea1425 wily-piec1450 artificera1500 tod?a1513 Sim Subtlea1529 serpentinea1533 prata1542 wily beguile1550 wily-wat?1550 elfa1556 dog fox1609 saccularian1652 sly-cap1681 sly-boots1699 craftsmaster1717 scunge1824 sleeveen1834 chickaleary1869 sneck-draw1886 rusée1889 slypuss1942 the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > be cunning or act cunningly [verb (intransitive)] > so as to beguile oneself wily beguile1550 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > act fraudulently, cheat [verb (intransitive)] faitc1330 defraudc1384 to take (the) advantagea1393 false1393 halt1412 haft1519 juggle1528 wily beguile1550 foist1584 lurch1593 fog1621 imposture1624 rook1637 impone1640 cheat1647 chicane1671 humbug1753 fineer1765 gag1781 mountebank1814 jockeya1835 sniggle1837 barney1848 straw1851 honeyfuggle1856 skinch1891 finagle1926 1550 J. Heywood Hundred Epigrammes xxxiv. sig. Biv^v To whiche smart mocke, and wily begylyng, He..saied [etc.]. 1555 H. Latimer Let. 15 May in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. ii. xxxvi. 103 Let Men beware that they play not wylye begile themselves, as I feare me they do that go to Masse. 1555 H. Latimer Let. 15 May in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. ii. xxxvi. 103 Thus they play wyly, beguylyng them selves. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 193/2 While they thinke to deceaue the simple, these wylye begely most of all deceaue them selues. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 303 b Sufficiently instructed in those your wyly beguilye and..to well acquainted with your ambitious hawtynes. ?1589 T. Nashe Almond for Parrat 17 b The wicked..being so full of their wilie gilies. 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 60 Smiles, Wyly Guiles, queint wittie-prettie Toyes. 1618 N. Breton Court & Country C 4 b What is the end of all wily beguily? seeking to deceiue other, deceiu'd himselfe most of all. 1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 137 It shall go hard, but our wily-beguily Wits, will one way or other finde an euasion. 1625 J. Robinson Observ. xv. 102 Such wily~beguilies may for a time..get the opinion of prudent, and politick persons. 1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 101 Wilie beguilie deceives himself. C3. Combinations of the adjective or adverb, as wily-headed, wily-witty adjs. ΚΠ a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 17 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) They are so cautelous and wylie-headed. 1624 J. Gee Foot out of Snare App. 108 I shall begin to recant my opinion of his wily-witty worth. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.adv.c1330
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