What does "slyboots" mean?

A person who is clever or shrewd, especially one who is stealthy, manipulative, and rather charming.

What is a synonym for "slyboots"?

Common synonyms include: artful dodger, artful dodger, charmer, con artist, devil, dodger.

noun

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Noun

1
A person who is clever or shrewd, especially one who is stealthy, manipulative, and rather charming. British
"But Truth is such a flyaway, such a slyboots, so untransportable and unbarrelable a commodity, that it is as bad to catch as light."
2
a shifty deceptive person wordnet

"But Truth is such a flyaway, such a slyboots, so untransportable and unbarrelable a commodity, that it is as bad to catch as light."

From sly + boots.

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