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craftiness

English

Etymology

crafty +? -ness

Noun

craftiness (countable and uncountable, plural craftinesses)

  1. Skill in deception, slyness

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guile

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English gile, from Anglo-Norman gile, from Old French guile (deception), from Frankish *wigila (ruse). Cognate via Proto-Germanic with wile.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?a?l/
  • Rhymes: -a?l

Noun

guile (countable and uncountable, plural guiles)

  1. (uncountable) Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
  2. Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
Translations

Verb

guile (third-person singular simple present guiles, present participle guiling, simple past and past participle guiled)

  1. To deceive, beguile, bewile.
Derived terms
  • beguile
  • guileful
  • guileless
Related terms
  • wile
Translations

Etymology 2

Variant forms.

Noun

guile

  1. Obsolete form of gold.
  2. Alternative form of gyle

References


Old French

Etymology

From Frankish *wigila, see above

Noun

guile f (oblique plural guiles, nominative singular guile, nominative plural guiles)

  1. trickery; deception

Descendants

  • English: guile

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (guile)

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