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Sleighty vs Slighty - What's the difference?

sleighty | slighty |

In obsolete terms the difference between sleighty and slighty

is that sleighty is cunning; sly while slighty is slight.

sleighty

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) cunning; sly
  • * 1615 , W. Lawson, Country Housewifes Garden
    • You might sit in your Mount, and angle a peckled Trout, or sleighty Eele.
    (Webster 1913)

    slighty

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) slight
  • * Echard
    • Let them shew where any thing is advised or commanded after this slothful and slighty way.