trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan
(noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery
(noun) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
Source: WordNet® 3.1
trickery (countable and uncountable, plural trickeries)
(uncountable) Deception or underhanded behavior.
(uncountable) The art of dressing up; imposture.
(uncountable) Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.
(countable) An instance of deception, underhanded behavior, dressing up, imposture, artifice, etc.
• See deception
Source: Wiktionary
Trick"er*y, n.
Definition: The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 June 2025
(adjective) having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle; “a square peg in a round hole”; “a square corner”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
