sleight

== 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 sly and slöjd/sloyd. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /slaɪt/ Rhymes: -aɪt Homophone: slight === Noun === sleight (countable and uncountable, plural sleights) Cunning; craft; artful practice. (countable) An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation. Dexterous practice; dexterity; skill. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== sleight of hand sleightly sleighty ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === Leights == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === ==== Noun ==== sleight alternative form of sleighte === Etymology 2 === ==== Adjective ==== sleight alternative form of slight == Yola == === Etymology === From Middle English slight, from Old English sliht. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /sliːxt/ === Adjective === sleight 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