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Vinony

guile

noun

  1. deception
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɡaɪl/

name

Etymology: * As an English, Scottish, and French surname, borrowed from French guile. * Also as an English surname, variant of Gill. * Possibly also Americanized from the German surname Geil.

  1. A surname from French.

noun

Etymology: Variant forms.

  1. Obsolete form of gold.
  2. Alternative form of gyle.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English gile, from Anglo-Norman gile, from Old French guile (“deception”), from Frankish *wīl (“ruse”), from Proto-Germanic *wīlą, from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate via Proto-Germanic with wile.

  1. To deceive, beguile, bewile.

    “Who means no guile, be guiled soonest shall”