What is the meaning of Shifty?
Subject to frequent changes in direction.
Moving from one object to another; not looking directly and steadily at the person with whom one is speaking.
Having the appearance of being dishonest, criminal, or unreliable.
Resourceful; full of, or ready with, shifts or expedients.
↑ Thomas Wright, Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English, London: Henry G. Bohn, Volume 2, p. 848: “Cunning; artful” (Craven [Yorkshire]).
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