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Definition of Cunnings
1. cunning [n] - See also: cunning
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cunnings
| cunning cunning folk cunninger cunningest cunninghams cunningly cunningman cunningmen cunningness cunningnesses | cunnings (current term) cunny-catching cunonia family |
Literary usage of Cunnings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readings in Natural History by Samuel Lockwood (1888)
"—CANINE cunnings. "Three or four gentleman-like dogs." (ROM a boy up the writer
has held companionship with dogs of many kinds, ..."
2. The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare (1917)
"Soft! let me see; We'll make a solemn wager on your cunnings: SI ha 't: 156 When
in your motion you are hot and dry,— As make your bouts more violent to ..."
3. Lincolnshire Notes and Queries: A Quarterly Journal...devoted to the by A R (Arthur Roland) Maddison, W O. Massingberd, E. Mansel Sympson (1893)
"Harold, the son of Robert, the son of Gilbert de cunnings- holme, ... Gilbert Chub,
the son of Harold de cunnings- holme, granted to the Convent of ..."
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