wile

From Middle English wile, wyle, from Old Northern French wile (“guile”) and Old English wīl (“wile, trick”) and wiġle (“divination”), from Proto-Germanic *wīlą (“craft, deceit”) (from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, bend”)) and Proto-Germanic *wigulą, *wihulą (“prophecy”) (from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to consecrate, hallow, make holy”)). Cognate with Icelandic vél, væl (“artifice, craft, device, fraud, trick”), Dutch wijle.

• IPA^(key): /waɪl/
• Rhymes: -aɪl
• Homophone: while

wile (plural wiles)

1. (usually in the plural) A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice

   He was seduced by her wiles.

   • Milton

     to frustrate all our plots and wiles

• beguilement
• allurement

• wileful
• wily

• guile

wile (third-person singular simple present wiles, present participle wiling, simple past and past participle wiled)

1. To entice or lure
2. Archaic form of while (“to pass the time”)

   Here's a pleasant way to wile away the hours.

• bewile
• outwile

The phrase meaning to pass time idly is while away. We can trace the meaning in an adjectival sense for while back to Old English, hwīlen, "passing, transitory". It is also seen in whilend, "temporary, transitory". But since wile away occurs so often, it is now included in many dictionaries.

• Grammarist.com While away or wile away?
• Common Errors in the English Language Wile Away, While Away

• Lewi, Liew, Weil, lwei

wile (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. tomorrow

• ule
• wvle

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

From Old English wīl, wiġle (“wile, trick”), cognate with Old Norse vél (“artifice, craft”).

wile

1. wile, trick, artifice
2. a sorcerer

• wili

• English: wile

• IPA^(key): /ˈvʲi.lɛ/

wile m

1. locative/vocative singular of wił

wile f

1. dative/locative singular of wiła

• wile in Polish dictionaries at PWN