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noun 
  1. The skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful
  2. aptitude, Aptitude in performance; skill, proficiency.
    • 2005, w:Plato, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. w:Stephanus pagination, 236d.
    • : indeed at this very moment he's slipped away with the utmost into a form that's most perplexing to investigate.
Translations: 
  • Italian: furberia , furbizia
    (trans-mid)
adjective 
  1. sly, Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
  2. Skillful.
  3. Cute, appealing. (Rarely used., mostly in New England, pronounced by dropping the g: "cunnin")
Translations: 
  • Italian: furbo
    (trans-mid)
    (trans-bottom) (trans-top, skillful)
Etymology: As a noun from Old English cunnung, as an adjective from Middle English cunnand


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