different between guile vs foxiness

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 IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (guile)

English

Etymology

foxy +? -ness

Noun

foxiness (uncountable)

1. The characteristic or quality of being foxy

Translations