different between sleight vs sweight

English

Etymology

From Middle English sleight, sleght, sleythe, from Old Norse slœgð (“cunning”), from Proto-Germanic *sl?giþ?, from *sl?giz (“cunning”) (whence English sly). Doublet of slöjd/sloyd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sla?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t
• Homophones: slight

Noun

sleight (countable and uncountable, plural sleights)

1. Cunning; craft; artful practice.
2. An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation.
3. Dexterous practice; dexterity; skill.

Related terms

• sleight of hand
• sleightly
• sleighty

Translations

Anagrams

• Leights

Middle English

Etymology 1

Adjective

sleight

1. Alternative form of slight

Etymology 2

From Old Norse slœgð, from Proto-Germanic *sl?giþ?; equivalent to sly +? -th.

Alternative forms

• sleght, sleythe, sle?þe, sliþe, sleighte, scleighte, sleiht, sleþþe, sleyþe, slight, sle?t, slei?t, sly?t, sleigþe, sleygt, sleyt, sleiþe, sleyhte, slithe, sli?þe, slyghte, scli?t, sleihte, sleyght, sleyghte, slet, sley?te, sleyte, sli?t

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slixt/, /sl?i?xt/, /sl?i?ð/

Noun

sleight (plural sleightes)

1. Wit, shrewdness, judiciousness; the state of being wise.
2. Adeptness, expertise; knowledge in a certain area.
3. Tactics, plans, preparation; the act of readying.
4. A tactic, approach, method, or accomplishment.
5. Work, labour, might; that which is expended on a task.
6. Detail; the finer or more intricate points of something.
7. Cunning, sleight; craft; artful practice.
8. An artful or deceiving trick; a sly artifice.
9. (rare) Something of extreme attractiveness.

Derived terms

• sleighty
• sleightly

Descendants

• English: sleight
• Scots: slicht

References

• “sleight, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-05.

Adjective

sleight

1. Judicious, considered, shrewd; having or indicative of great wisdom.
2. Sly, artful, wily; employing or being an example of deception.

References

• “sleight, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-05.

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English slight, from Old English sliht.

Adjective

sleight

1. slight

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Alternative forms

• swecht (English dialectal, Scotland)
• sweicht, swelch, swelth (Scotland)

Etymology

From Middle English sweyght, derivative of Middle English swei?en (“to sway”), equivalent to sway +? -th.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /swe?t/

Noun

sweight (plural sweights)

1. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A portion or amount; the greatest amount or the greater part of anything; a multitude; a great number or quantity.

   main sweight

2. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) The force of a moving object or body in motion; violence.
3. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) A rush; an impetus; a burden, weight, or force.

Related terms

• swegh

Anagrams

• Weights, weights