guile
see also: Guile
Etymology 1
Guile
Etymology
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see also: Guile
Etymology 1
From Middle English gile, from Anglo-Norman gile, from Old French guile, from Frankish *wigila, from Proto-Germanic *wīlą, from Proto-Indo-European *wey-.
Pronunciation- IPA: /ɡaɪl/
guile
- (uncountable) Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
- Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
- French: ruse, fourberie
- German: Gerissenheit, Hinterhältigkeit
- Italian: astuzia, inganno, frode
- Portuguese: astúcia
- Russian: хи́трость
- Spanish: astucia
guile (guiles, present participle guiling; simple past and past participle guiled)
- To deceive, beguile, bewile.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗:
- Who means no guile, be guiled soonest shall
- French: tromper, entourlouper
- German: irreleiten, irreführen
- Italian: ingannare, turlupinare
- Russian: обма́нывать
Variant forms.
Noun- Obsolete form of gold
- Alternative form of gyle
Guile
Etymology
- As an English, Scottish, and French - surname, borrowed from French guile.
- Also as an English surname, variant of Gill.
- Possibly also Americanized from the German - surname Geil.
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