SHIFTILY, SHIFTINESS, SHIFTY
ADJECTIVES
1225 — SLIDDERY sly, deceitful, shifty, evasive; not trustworthy → obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
1548 — VAFROUS sly, cunning, crafty, shifty → obs.
1592 — MAKESHIFT of persons: shifty, roguish → obs.
1602 — GLIBBERY shifty, untrustworthy → obs.
1631 — LUBRIC slippery, shifty, deceitful → obs.
1646 — LUBRICOUS shifty; unstable; elusive
1710 — TERGIVERSANT tergiversating, shuffling, evasive, shifty
1819 — LOUCHE dubious, shifty, disreputable
1840 — BACKING AND FILLING irresolute; dilatory; hesitant; shifty → Eng. colloq.
1858 — MAKE-SHIFTY shifty, roguish
ADVERBS
1598 — PALTERLY shiftily, trickily → obs.
NOUNS
1613 — LUBRICITY shiftiness; unsteadiness, instability
..E18 — BACKING AND FILLING shiftiness; irresolution → colloq.
NOUNS, PERSON
1565 — MAKESHIFT one who is given to making shifts; a shifty person, a rogue → obs.
1568 — DODGER a shifty, dishonest person
1616 — SHEEP-BITER a shifty, sneaking, or thievish fellow → obs.
1675 — JIGGER a shifty fellow; a trickster → sl.
1871 — WHIFFMAGIG a shifty or evasive person; a base person
VERBS
1519 — HAFT to use subtlety or deceit; to use shifts or dodges → obs.
1940 — WRIGGLE LIKE A CUT SNAKE to be evasive or shifty → Aust. sl
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