wile
IPA: wˈaɪɫ
noun
- (usually in the plural) A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice
- A surname transferred from the nickname.
- (rare) A male given name transferred from the surname.
verb
- (transitive) To entice or lure.
- Misspelling of while (“to pass the time”). [(transitive, now only in combination with away; see also while away) To pass (time) idly.]
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Examples of "wile" in Sentences
- I see the only way I'm going to get through this is to do what I used to call the wile-aways.
- I see the only way I'm going to get through this is to do what I used to call the wile-aways.
- Den he tuhn on me lak a wile man an’ his eyes glitter an’ he say: ‘Good Gawd, Ah thought you’d unnerstan’ even ef nobody else din’!
- As for the song itself, when it gets going (i.e. after a warm-up of thirty of your seconds that I feel are unnecessarily long and thirty-secondish), it is very, very pleasant indeed, even though I do not know what 'wile' means.
- And in that time, in a large cage of concrete and iron, Ben Bolt had exercised and recovered the use of his muscles, and added to his hatred of the two-legged things, puny against him in themselves, who by trick and wile had so helplessly imprisoned him.
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