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"etymology_text": "From Middle English *furtyve (implied in furtyvely (adverb)), from Middle French furtif, furtive (“furtive, stealthy”) (modern French furtif), from Latin fūrtīvus (“clandestine, furtive, secret; concealed, hidden; stolen”), from fūrtum (“theft; robbery”) (from fūr (“thief”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”)) + -īvus (suffix forming adjectives).",
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"word": "ferret"
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"ref": "1744, [François Gayot de Pitaval], “The History of Charles-Francis Harrouard, whom His Father and Mother Disowned to be Their Son”, in [anonymous], transl., A Select Collection of Singular and Interesting Histories. […], volume II, London: […] [A]ndrew Millar, […], →OCLC, page 280",
"text": "[…] The Defendant never vvas acknovvledged by the Sieur Harrouard’s Family, nor by that of his VVife. Thus, granting him to have been in Poſſeſſion of his Son’s Eſtate, it vvould only be a furtive and clandeſtine, not a public and avovved Poſſeſſion; and conſequently ſuch a Poſſeſſion as is incapable of founding a juſt and legal Title.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "1902, [Alice Macdonald Fleming], “In Camp”, in [Alice Kipling; Alice Macdonald Fleming], Hand in Hand: Verses by a Mother and Daughter, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews […]; New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 71",
"text": "At the edge of my kingdom scurry / Creatures in feathers and furs— / Crows in a furtive hurry— / Hungry and cringing curs— […]",
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"Of a thing: done with evasive or guilty secrecy."
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"word": "clandestine"
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{
"word": "surreptitious"
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"word": "covert"
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"_dis1": "57 22 17 5",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "potaen",
"sense": "of a thing: exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy",
"word": "потаен"
},
{
"_dis1": "57 22 17 5",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "of a thing: exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy",
"word": "kradmý"
},
{
"_dis1": "57 22 17 5",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "of a thing: exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy",
"word": "nenápadný"
},
{
"_dis1": "57 22 17 5",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "of a thing: exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy",
"word": "furtief"
},
{
"_dis1": "57 22 17 5",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "of a thing: exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy",
"word": "diefachtig"
},
{
"_dis1": "57 22 17 5",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "of a thing: exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy",
"word": "heimelijk"
},
{
"_dis1": "57 22 17 5",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "of a thing: exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy",
"word": "steels"
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"_dis1": "57 22 17 5",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of a thing: exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy",
"word": "petollinen"
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"_dis1": "57 22 17 5",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of a thing: exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy",
"word": "vaivihkainen"
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"_dis1": "57 22 17 5",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "of a thing: exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy",
"word": "verstohlen"
},
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"_dis1": "57 22 17 5",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "fevgaléos",
"sense": "of a thing: exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "φευγαλέος"
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"_dis1": "57 22 17 5",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "of a thing: exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy",
"word": "fūrtīvus"
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"_dis1": "57 22 17 5",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "pótaen",
"sense": "of a thing: exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy",
"word": "по́таен"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "of a thing: exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy",
"word": "furtivo"
}
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"Of a thing: that has been acquired by theft; stolen; also (generally) taken stealthily."
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"acquire",
"acquire"
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"theft",
"theft"
],
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"stolen",
"stolen#Adjective"
],
[
"taken",
"take#Verb"
]
],
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"_dis1": "9 66 23 3",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "taken stealthily",
"word": "salaa otettu"
}
]
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"name": "English terms suffixed with -ive",
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{
"ref": "1967, J[ohn] A[lec] Baker, “[The Peregrine] The Hunting Life”, in John Fanshawe, editor, The Peregrine, The Hill of Summer & Diaries: The Complete Works of J. A. Baker, London: Collins, published 2011, page 48",
"text": "Gluttonous, hoarding jay; he should have hedge-hopped and lurched from tree to tree in his usual furtive manner.",
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"Of a person or an animal: sly, stealthy."
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{
"word": "thieflike"
},
{
"word": "thievish"
}
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"_dis1": "4 1 56 38",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "mākir",
"sense": "of a person or animal: sly, stealthy",
"word": "مَاكِر"
},
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"_dis1": "4 1 56 38",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "mustaraq",
"sense": "of a person or animal: sly, stealthy",
"word": "مُسْتَرَق"
},
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"_dis1": "4 1 56 38",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "muḵtalas",
"sense": "of a person or animal: sly, stealthy",
"word": "مُخْتَلَس"
},
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"_dis1": "4 1 56 38",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "maḵfiyy",
"sense": "of a person or animal: sly, stealthy",
"word": "مَخْفِيّ"
},
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"_dis1": "4 1 56 38",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "skrit",
"sense": "of a person or animal: sly, stealthy",
"word": "скрит"
},
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"_dis1": "4 1 56 38",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prikrit",
"sense": "of a person or animal: sly, stealthy",
"word": "прикрит"
},
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"_dis1": "4 1 56 38",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "of a person or animal: sly, stealthy",
"word": "kradmý"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 1 56 38",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "of a person or animal: sly, stealthy",
"word": "potutelný"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 1 56 38",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "of a person or animal: sly, stealthy",
"word": "furtief"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 1 56 38",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "of a person or animal: sly, stealthy",
"word": "heimelijk"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 1 56 38",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "of a person or animal: sly, stealthy",
"word": "steels"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 1 56 38",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of a person or animal: sly, stealthy",
"word": "vaivihkainen"
},
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"_dis1": "4 1 56 38",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "of a person or animal: sly, stealthy",
"word": "furtif"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 1 56 38",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "of a person or animal: sly, stealthy",
"word": "subreptice"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 1 56 38",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "of a person or animal: sly, stealthy",
"word": "geheim"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 1 56 38",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "of a person or animal: sly, stealthy",
"word": "heimlich"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 1 56 38",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "of a person or animal: sly, stealthy",
"word": "Tarn-"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 1 56 38",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kryfós",
"sense": "of a person or animal: sly, stealthy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "κρυφός"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 1 56 38",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "lathraíos",
"sense": "of a person or animal: sly, stealthy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "λαθραίος"
},
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"_dis1": "4 1 56 38",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "of a person or animal: sly, stealthy",
"word": "furtivo"
},
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"_dis1": "4 1 56 38",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "of a person or animal: sly, stealthy",
"word": "fūrtīvus"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 1 56 38",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "of a person or animal: sly, stealthy",
"word": "zaglīgs"
},
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"_dis1": "4 1 56 38",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "skríšen",
"sense": "of a person or animal: sly, stealthy",
"word": "скри́шен"
},
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"_dis1": "4 1 56 38",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "of a person or animal: sly, stealthy",
"word": "whakamokeke"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 1 56 38",
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "of a person or animal: sly, stealthy",
"word": "heemlich"
},
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"_dis1": "4 1 56 38",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "of a person or animal: sly, stealthy",
"word": "furtivo"
},
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"_dis1": "4 1 56 38",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "skrýtnyj",
"sense": "of a person or animal: sly, stealthy",
"word": "скры́тный"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 1 56 38",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "of a person or animal: sly, stealthy",
"word": "furtivo"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 1 56 38",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "of a person or animal: sly, stealthy",
"word": "sigiloso"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 1 56 38",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "of a person or animal: sly, stealthy",
"word": "alimis"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 1 56 38",
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "noayon",
"sense": "of a person or animal: sly, stealthy",
"word": "ноаён"
}
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"ipa": "[ˈfɜːɾɪv]",
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