sleight

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English

Etymology

From Middle English sleighte, sleyght, sleythe, from Old Norse slœgð (“cunning”), from Proto-Germanic *slōgiþō, from *slōgiz (“cunning”) (whence English sly). Doublet of slöjd/sloyd.

Pronunciation

Noun

sleight (countable and uncountable, plural sleights)

  1. Cunning; craft; artful practice.
  2. (countable) An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation.
    • 1866, Henry Smith, Thomas Fuller, The Sermons of Mr. Henry Smith, page 37:
      If men have so many sleights to compass their matters, how can the compasser himself hold his fingers?
  3. Dexterous practice; dexterity; skill.

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

sleight

  1. Alternative form of sleighte

Etymology 2

Adjective

sleight

  1. Alternative form of slight

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English slight, from Old English sliht.

Pronunciation

Adjective

sleight

  1. slight

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 68
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