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slyboots

WordNet
  1. (n) slyboots
    a shifty deceptive person
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Slyboots
    A humerous appellation for a sly, cunning, or waggish person. "Slyboots was cursedly cunning to hide 'em."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) slyboots
    A sly, cunning, or waggish person: also applied to animals.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Slyboots
    a sly or cunning person or animal
Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Prob. from Ice. slæg-r; cf. Ger. schlau.

Usage in literature

Are you very sure that Antoinette may not be a slyboots? "Samuel Brohl & Company" by Victor Cherbuliez

Mr. Slyboot, guessing I was a stranger, asked if I had been lately in France? "The Adventures of Roderick Random" by Tobias Smollett

Ah, slyboots that she is! "The Haunted Chamber" by "The Duchess"

That of "Slyboots" is also interesting from the resemblance of a portion of it to "Jack and the Beanstalk. "The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country" by William Forsell Kirby

You're a real slyboots. "Mary's Meadow" by Juliana Horatia Ewing

You're a real slyboots. "Last Words" by Juliana Horatia Ewing

Go, Slyboots, and command them to come into my presence. "The Fairy Nightcaps" by Frances Elizabeth Barrow

That was the very reason why I was employed by the cunning slyboots of a Don Ignatius. "The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer" by Eugène Sue

Slyboots was gone, scissors and all. "Spinning-Wheel Stories" by Louisa May Alcott