Wily
Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2021 5:33 pm
Thoughts anyone on origin? All possible leads appear to be conjecture.
Here are two options:
https://www.etymonline.com/word/wile and https://etymologeek.com/eng/wile
The second one introduced me to 'wily beguily', so I looked it up. I expected it to be an intensified way of saying super sneaky, but it turns out to mean someone who is caught in their own wiles. They outwiled themselves, that is to say.