guile
Meanings
noun
- Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
- Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
verb
- To deceive, beguile, bewile.
noun
- Obsolete form of gold.
- Alternative form of gyle.
name
- A surname from French.
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Etymology
From Middle English gile, from Anglo-Norman gile, from Old French guile (“deception”), from Frankish *wīl (“ruse”), from Proto-Germanic *wīlą, from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate via Proto-Germanic with wile.
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