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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)
- (uncountable) Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
- Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
Translations
Verb
guile (third-person singular simple present guiles, present participle guiling, simple past and past participle guiled)
- To deceive, beguile, bewile.
Derived terms
- beguile
- guileful
- guileless
Related terms
- wile
Translations
Etymology 2
Variant forms.
Noun
guile
- Obsolete form of gold.
- 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)
- 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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finesse
English
Etymology
From Middle English f?nesse (“degree of excellence; (of metal) fineness, purity”), from Middle French finesse, Old French finesse (“fineness; delicacy; slenderness”), from fine, fin (“fine, thin”) (from Latin f?nis (“end”); compare Middle English f?n (“of superior quality; precious, valuable; admirable, pleasing; pure, refined; fineness, purity; delicate, exquisite, fine; sharp, thin”)) + -esse (suffix forming nouns describing the condition of being something).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /f??n?s/, /f?-/
- (General American) IPA(key): /f??n?s/, /f?-/
- Hyphenation: fin?esse
Noun
finesse (countable and uncountable, plural finesses)
- (uncountable) Skill in the handling or manipulation of a situation. [from c. 1520]
- Synonym: finessing
- (uncountable) The property of having elegance, grace, refinement, or skill. [from mid 16th c.]
- (countable) An adroit manoeuvre. [from mid 16th c.]
- (countable, card games) In bridge, whist, etc.: a technique which allows one to win a trick, usually by playing a card when it is thought that a card that can beat it is held by another player whose turn is over. [from early 18th c.]
Translations
Verb
finesse (third-person singular simple present finesses, present participle finessing, simple past and past participle finessed)
- (transitive, chiefly Canada, US, politics) To evade (a problem, situation, etc.) by using some clever argument or strategem.
- 2018, John C. Hull, Options, Futures and Other Derivatives (10th ed.), Pearson (2018), p. 276
- Almost miraculously, [risk-neutral valuation] finesses the problem that we know hardly anything about the risk aversion of the buyers and sellers of options.
- 2018, John C. Hull, Options, Futures and Other Derivatives (10th ed.), Pearson (2018), p. 276
- (transitive, card games) To play (a card) as a finesse. [from mid 18th c.]
- (transitive, intransitive) To handle or manage carefully or skilfully; to manipulate in a crafty way. [from mid 18th c.]
- Synonym: (slang) zhoosh
- (intransitive, card games) To attempt to win a trick by finessing. [from mid 18th c.]
- (intransitive, croquet, obsolete) To play a ball out of the way of an opponent.
Derived terms
Translations
References
Further reading
- finesse (card games) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- finesse (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
From fin +? -esse
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fi.n?s/
- Rhymes: -?s
Noun
finesse f (plural finesses)
- fineness (of hair, writing etc.)
- thinness
- keenness, sharpness (of blade)
- fineness, delicacy; slenderness
- perceptiveness; sensitivity, finesse
Further reading
- “finesse” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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