shysty
adj.— «i’ll leave the actual collecting to shysty business men who take advantage of everyone they can.» —“why i quit collecting before i got started. hhhrrmmpphh!” by mlkst22@vms.cis.pitt.edu Usenet: rec.arts.comics.misc Mar. 29, 1995. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Language is always evolving, and that’s also true for American Sign Language. A century ago, the sign for “telephone” was one fist below your mouth and the other at your ear, as if you’re holding an old-fashioned candlestick...
Brittany in Green Coast Springs, Florida, says that when she was grumpy or irritated as a child, her mother would say a phrase that sounded like Don’t be such a scooch. This bit of Italian-American slang, often rendered as skutch, denotes a “pest”...