Definition of Cunninger

1. Adjective. (comparative of cunning) ¹

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Definition of Cunninger

1. cunning [adj] - See also: cunning

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cunninger

cunners
cunnies
cunning
cunning folk
cunninger
cunningest
cunninghams
cunningly
cunningman
cunningmen
cunningness
cunningnesses
cunnings
cunny-catching
cunonia family

Literary usage of Cunninger

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"... shewing pincushions to a party—" people get cunninger and cunninger every year." —So interesting an address must give rise to observation. ..."

2. The Rise and Expansion of the British Dominion in India by Alfred Comyn Lyall (1894)
"... because he is a cunninger animal than they, so surely will the animal that is cunninger or stronger than he, sit upon his shoulders in turn. ..."

3. Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages by Percy Society (1844)
"... began Nicols to praise a neighbour of myne, sai- yng that he was cunninger then I, ... me to be cunninger then my neighbour. Yea, sayd Nicols, in talke, ..."

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