different between sleighty vs sleight

English

Etymology

sleight +? -y

Adjective

sleighty (comparative more sleighty, superlative most sleighty)

1. (obsolete) cunning; sly
   • 1615, W. Lawson, Country Housewifes Garden

     You might sit in your Mount, and angle a peckled Trout, or sleighty Eele.

Anagrams

• Leightys, Lightsey

Middle English

Alternative forms

• slei?ti, slei?ty, sli?ty, sleihti, sleythi, sleyghty, slegti

Etymology

From sleight +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?slixti?/, /?sl?i?xti?/

Adjective

sleighty

1. sly, sneaky, clever

Descendants

• English: sleighty (obsolete)

References

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

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