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		<title>Legerdeheel</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[noun. ‘Light-heeled’ pranks. If your wiues play legerdeheele, though you bee a hundred miles off, yet you shall be sure instantly to find it in your forheads. All Fools, George Chapman (1605) A play on the word legerdemain, which literally means &#8220;light of hand,&#8221; used to refer to sleight of hand or trickery and deception. In [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>noun</em>. ‘Light-heeled’ pranks.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>If your wiues play <strong>legerdeheele</strong>, though you bee a hundred miles off, yet you shall be sure instantly to find it in your forheads.</em><br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">All Fools</span>, George Chapman (1605)</p></blockquote>
<p>A play on the word <em>legerdemain</em>, which literally means &#8220;light of hand,&#8221; used to refer to sleight of hand or trickery and deception. In the citation above, <strong>legerdeheel</strong> refers specifically to infidelity, not a laughing matter. Except for the times that it is.</p>
<p>If being light of hands is <em>prestidigitation</em>, then being light of heel must be <em>prestipeditation</em>. Perhaps meaning that you can sneak off somewhere else without being noticed, as if by magic. Or maybe it means you can do card tricks with your feet.</p>
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