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Definition of Cunninger
1. cunning [adj] - See also: cunning
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cunninger
| cunners cunnies cunning cunning folk cunninger (current term) 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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