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cagey

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cagey /ˈkeɪʤi/ (also cagy)

▶adjective (cagier, cagiest) informal uncommunicative owing to caution or suspicion.

– derivatives
cagily adverb,
caginess (also cageyness) noun.

– origin early 20th cent. (orig. US): of unknown origin.

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