8 letters · 17 points in Scrabble
adjective given to thievery
originFrom Middle English thevysch, equivalent to thief + -ish. Cognate with Saterland Frisian däifsk (“thievish”), Dutch diefs (“thievish”), German Low German deevsk (“thievish”), German diebisch (“thievish”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0