TRICKERY

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


Etymology

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• 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



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19 April 2025

CATCH

(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”


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