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electrickery

noun

Etymology

Blend of electricity + trickery.

  1. derived from *dreg-✻
  2. derived from *trakjaną✻
  3. derived from trekken
  4. derived from treck
  5. derived from tricor
  6. derived from tricāre
  7. derived from *triccāre✻
  8. derived from trechen
  9. derived from trique
  10. inherited from trikke
  11. suffixed as trickery — “trick + ery”
  12. compounded as electrickery — “electricity + trickery”

Definitions

  1. Electricity, or the technological advances that it underpins.

    • Yez can't expect, soshallism to work hand in hand with flyin' machines, electrickery, an' all th' other various an' many infernal inventions what have come about in this age of nervous' an' high-tenshioned fackadoodalums.
    • "Why did we return to this time, Touchwood?" Catweazle asked the toad. "Why did we leave the world of electrickery?"

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