wily beguily

English

Etymology

Rhyming alteration of wily + beguile.

Noun

wily beguily (plural wily beguilies)

1. (obsolete) Someone who is caught by their own trickery; a person that becomes trapped by their own craftiness.
2. (obsolete) A cunning trick, something wily, trickery.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.8:

     I often hazard upon certaine outslips of my minde for which I distrust my selfe; and certaine verball wilie-beguilies [translating finesses], whereat I shake mine eares; but I let them runne at hab or nab […].