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cunning person
19 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 1147 | fox (Vulpes vulpes) | ↔ | cunning person | Open |
| NEW Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Romanian | |
| lexeme | motan | |
| meaning 1 | cat | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | cunning person | |
| reference | Румынско-русский словарь 1954 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme | жук | |
| meaning 1 | beatle | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (informal) cunning person | |
| reference | Krivoščapova 2007: 152 | |
| comment | жук ‘about a crafty, cunning person, a rogue’ [ССРЛЯ 4, 188], жук ‘about the flatterer’ (Smolensk) [СРНГ 9, 222], жуковатый ‘sly, crafty’ [ЯОС 4, 50], (slang) жук ‘a person belonging to the criminal community’ [БСЖ, 186] | |
| NEW Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Slovenian | |
| lexeme | tǝč | |
| meaning 1 | (dialect) bird | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (dialect) sly person | |
| reference | Čujec Stres: 2, 348 | |
| comment | Zatolmin Slovenian |
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Любопытно, что хитрецом чаще оказывается животное из рода собачьих.