slyboots
Charmingly devious person
A slyboots is a cunning or mischievous person, someone who acts with quiet cleverness or playful deception.
The term is affectionate rather than condemning—you might call a child who sneaks cookies a little slyboots, or tease a friend who's been secretly dating someone: You slyboots, you never told me!
The word has an old-fashioned, slightly whimsical quality.
Cleverly deceptive
- wilySkilled at deception
- shrewdPractically clever, perceptive
- artfulCleverly deceptive
- deviousUnderhanded and calculating
guileful · cagey · canny · astute · slick · tricky · clever · foxy
Lovable troublemaker
- rogueDishonest or uncontrolled agent
- scampMischievous young person
- minxFlirtatious, impudent girl
- impMinor mischief-making devil
tease · mischief-maker · prankster · joker · rapscallion · scallywag · devil · knave
One who controls cunningly
- plotterMachinator or diagram machine
- intriguerOne who schemes secretly
- conspiratorOne planning in secret
- tricksterCunning deceiver in myth
deceiver · conniver · mastermind · operator · puppeteer · machinator · strategist · double-dealer
crafty
Cleverly deceptive
devious · guileful · cagey · canny · astute · slick · tricky · clever · foxy · sharp
rascal
Lovable troublemaker
imp · tease · mischief-maker · prankster · joker · rapscallion · scallywag · devil · knave · wag
manipulator
One who controls cunningly
- plotterMachinator or diagram machine
- intriguerOne who schemes secretly
- conspiratorOne planning in secret
trickster · deceiver · conniver · mastermind · operator · puppeteer · machinator · strategist · double-dealer · wheeler-dealer
slybootsnaif
Unsophisticated person
babe in the woods · simpleton · innocent · ingenue · fool
slybootsstraight shooter
Forthright, blunt person
open book · honest broker · straight arrow · what-you-see-is-what-you-get · square