sleight

Pronunciation: /slaɪt/

The English word “sleight” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

Cunning; craft; artful practice.
An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation.
Dexterous practice; dexterity; skill.

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.

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