outwile
noun
1.
a trick, artifice, or stratagem meant to fool, trap, or entice; device.
2.
wiles, artful or beguiling behavior.
3.
deceitful cunning; trickery.
verb (used with object)
Verb phrases 4.
to beguile, entice, or lure (usually followed by away, from, into, etc.): The music wiled him from his study.
5.
wile away, to spend or pass (time), especially in a leisurely or pleasurable fashion: to wile away the long winter nights.
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Outwile
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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wile (waɪl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | trickery, cunning, or craftiness |
| 2. | (usually plural) an artful or seductive trick or ploy |
| —vb | |
| 3. | (tr) to lure, beguile, or entice |
| [C12: from Old Norse vel craft; probably related to Old French wīle, Old English wīgle magic. See | |
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Word Origin & History
wile
1154, wil "wile, trick," perhaps from O.N.Fr. *wile (O.Fr. guile), or directly from a Scand. source (cf. O.N. vel "trick, craft, fraud," vela "defraud"). Perhaps ultimately related to O.E. wicca "wizard" (see Wicca). Lighter sense of "amorous or playful trick" is from 1600.
Wily is attested from c.1300.
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