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shiftiness

noun

Etymology

From shifty + -ness.

  1. derived from *skey-✻ — “to cut, divide, separate, part”
  2. derived from *skeyb-✻ — “to separate, divide, part”
  3. inherited from *skiftijaną✻
  4. inherited from sċiftan — “to divide, separate into shares; appoint, ordain; arrange, organise”
  5. inherited from schiften
  6. inherited from schyft
  7. suffixed as shifty — “shift + y”
  8. suffixed as shiftiness — “shifty + ness”

Definitions

  1. The property of being shifty.

    • Mr. Henderson's chief trouble seems to be that he cannot forget his old shiftiness of views and his pendulum-like swingings between Liberalism and Independent Labourism[…]

  2. The result or product of being shifty.

    • I had the grace or humility sometimes to see myself as a mass of shiftinesses; a few dogmas might help to steady me.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA