Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventorySly, cunning, full of tricks.
From Middle English wily, wiley, wyly. By surface analysis, wil(e) + -y.
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- Inherited-form mentionwilyenm
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