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Meanings of slyboots in English

Portuguese
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Catalan
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Spanish
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A shifty deceptive person.

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        Usage of slyboots in English
        1
        Are you very sure that Antoinette may not be a slyboots?
        Samuel Brohl and Company
        2
        And to each of them the little slyboots replied,-
        Stories to Tell to Children
        3
        My lord burst out, with a laugh and an oath-Youyoung slyboots, you've been at Nancy Sievewright.
        The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., a Colonel in the Service of H...
        4
        Oh, you slyboots! says the Countess.
        The Virginians
        5
        Ah, slyboots that she is!
        The Haunted Chamber: A Novel
        6
        This Ginger, Sire-oh ,he'sa slyboots if ever a cat was-saidhe was walking past the tree to which those villains bound your Majesty.
        The Last Battle
        7
        The king was so pleased at the victory that he made Slyboots his son-in-law.
        The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literatur...
        8
        Yes, yes, Slyboots, but who put the idea of keeping their own tidy, into their heads?
        Hollowmell / or, A Schoolgirl's Mission
        9
        They sent Habakkuk Slyboots,* who delivered him the following message, as the peremptory commands of his trusty companions:-
        The History of John Bull
        10
        Some time afterwards the country was invaded by a foreign king, and Slyboots was sent against the enemy in the field.
        The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literatur...
        11
        That of "Slyboots" is also interesting from the resemblance of a portion of it to "Jack and the Beanstalk."
        The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literatur...
        12
        Then Slyboots said to him mockingly, You may wait there till the feast is over, and then we will resume our conversation.
        The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literatur...
        13
        "Twelve hundred years," said Slyboots, enunciating each syllable.
        Johannes cabal the necromancer
        14
        That night in her musty bedroom Glory wrote home while little Slyboots slept: 'The best-laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft aglee.'
        The Christian: A Story
        15
        "Corporal," echoed Ragtag Slyboots in a ghastly voice.
        Johannes cabal the necromancer
        16
        "A clever person like yourself can easily correct that" (she, the slyboots, was thinking of something else).
        Condensed Novels
        Translations for slyboots
        Portuguese
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        Slyboots through the time