trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan
(noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
wile (plural wiles)
(usually, in the plural) A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice
• beguilement
• allurement
wile (third-person singular simple present wiles, present participle wiling, simple past and past participle wiled)
To entice or lure
Archaic form of while (“to pass the time”)
The phrase meaning to pass time idly is while away. We can trace the meaning in an adjectival sense for while back to Old English, hwīlen, "passing, transitory". It is also seen in whilend, "temporary, transitory". But since wile away occurs so often, it is now included in many dictionaries.
• Lewi, Liew, Weil, lwei
Wile
A surname.
(rare) A male given name from surnames.
• Lewi, Liew, Weil, lwei
Source: Wiktionary
Wile, n. Etym: [OE. wile, AS. wil; cf. Icel. v, væl. Cf. Guile.]
Definition: A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement. Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. Eph. vi. 11. Not more almighty to resist our might, Than wise to frustrate all our plots and wiles. Milton.
Wile, v. t.
1. To practice artifice upon; to deceive; to beguile; to allure. [R.] Spenser.
2. To draw or turn away, as by diversion; to while or while away; to cause to pass pleasantly. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 November 2024
(noun) stout-bodied broad-winged moth with conspicuously striped or spotted wings; larvae are hairy caterpillars
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