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spylike

adj

Etymology

From spy + -like.

  1. derived from *speḱ-✻
  2. derived from *spehōną✻
  3. derived from *spehōn✻
  4. derived from espier
  5. inherited from spien
  6. suffixed as spylike — “spy + like”

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a spy.

    • […] he looked an officer and a gentleman, though he had been engaged so long in plots, counterplots, intrigues, and conspiracies that a sort of spylike expression had come into his face.

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