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trickery

noun
/ˈtɹɪ.kə.ɹi/US

Etymology

From trick + -ery, first recorded in 1719.

  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”

Definitions

  1. Deception, deceit or underhanded behavior.

    • [H]e did not wrap his rugged subject in silks and ermines, and other sickly trickeries of phrase.
    • In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good.
    • The miners found diversions even in his alleged frauds and trickeries . . . and were fond of relating with great gusto his evasion of the Foreign Miners' Tax.

  2. The art of dressing up

    The art of dressing up; imposture, pretense.

  3. Artifice

    Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.

    • French winger Hatem Ben Arfa has also taken plenty of plaudits recently and he was the architect of the opening goal with some superb trickery on the left touchline.

The neighborhood

Derived

politrickery

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at trickery. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at trickery. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at trickery

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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