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trick
English
Etymology
Uncertain.
- Perhaps from From Middle English *trikke, from Old Northern French trique (related to Old French trichier; French: tricher), itself possibly from Middle High German trechen (“to launch a shot at, play a trick on”), but the Old French verb more likely is derived from Vulgar Latin *tricc?re, from Late Latin tric?re, from Latin tr?cor, tr?c?r? (“behave in an evasive manner, search for detours; trifle, delay”).
- Alternatively, perhaps from Dutch trek (“a pull, draw, trick”), from trekken (“to draw”), from Middle Dutch trekken, tr?ken (“to pull, place, put, move”), from Old Dutch *trekkan, *trekan (“to move, drag”), from Proto-Germanic *trakjan?, *trekan? (“to drag, scrape, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”).
If the second proposal is correct, the term is cognate with Low German trekken, Middle High German trecken, trechen, Danish trække, and Old Frisian trekka, Romanian truc and other Romance languages.
Compare track, treachery, trig, and trigger.
Pronunciation
- enPR: tr?k, IPA(key): /t??k/, [t??????k], [t?????k]
- Rhymes: -?k
Noun
trick (plural tricks)
- Something designed to fool or swindle.
- A single element of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act; a magic trick.
- An entertaining difficult physical action.
- 1995, All Aboard for Space: Introducing Space to Youngsters (page 158)
- Yo-yo tricks involving sleeping the yo-yo (like "walking the dog" and "rocking the baby") cannot be performed in space.
- 1995, All Aboard for Space: Introducing Space to Youngsters (page 158)
- An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.
- Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Prior to this entry?)
- (dated) A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait.
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, King John Act I, scene I
- He hath a trick of Cœur de Lion's face.
- 1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear act IV, scene VI:
- The trick of that voice I do well remember.
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, King John Act I, scene I
- A knot, braid, or plait of hair.
- I cannot tell , but it stirs me more than all your court curls , or your spangles , or your tricks
- (card games) A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined.
- (slang) A sex act, chiefly one performed for payment; an act of prostitution.
- 1988, John H. Lindquist, Misdemeanor Crime: Trivial Criminal Pursuit, page 43:
- Perhaps the most important thing a prostitute learns is how to "manage" the client; how to con him into spending more money than he planned. Learning how to perform tricks takes only a few minutes. Learning how to "hustle" the client takes longer.
- 2010, Richard Gill, Paloma Azul, page 139:
- "How did you get into all this?" "I started doing tricks when I was young and I don't mean the magic circle. I learned about sex from an early age. There was nothing else to do in Pitsea except heavy petting and getting F grades at school."
- 2019, Julie S. Draskoczy, Belomor: Criminality and Creativity in Stalin’s Gulag:
- When he later asked her to strip and perform tricks for him, she refused, and he chased her away. She had similar experiences with other men until she eventually fell into prostitution: […]
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:trick.
- 1988, John H. Lindquist, Misdemeanor Crime: Trivial Criminal Pursuit, page 43:
- (slang) A customer to a prostitute.
- 2011, Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life (page 99)
- Ten minutes after she got down she broke luck. A white trick in a thirty-seven Buick picked her up. I timed her. She had racehorse speed.
- 2011, Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life (page 99)
- A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs.
- 1899, New York (State), Bureau of Statistics, Deptartment of Labor, Annual Report:
- Woodside Junction—On 8 hour basis, first trick $60, second trick $60, third trick $50.
- 1949, Labor arbitration reports, page 738
- The Union contends that Fifer was entitled to promotion to the position of Group Leader on the third trick in the Core Room Department.
- 1899, New York (State), Bureau of Statistics, Deptartment of Labor, Annual Report:
- (nautical) A sailor's spell of work at the helm, usually two hours long.
- A toy; a trifle; a plaything.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim
- the tricks and toyes that in them lurke,
- 1599, William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim
Synonyms
- (something designed to fool): artifice, con, gambit, ploy, rip-off, See also Thesaurus:deception
- (magic trick): illusion, magic trick, sleight of hand
- (customer to a prostitute): john, see also Thesaurus:prostitute's client
- (entertaining difficult physical action):
- (daily period of work): shift
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
trick (third-person singular simple present tricks, present participle tricking, simple past and past participle tricked)
- (transitive) To fool; to cause to believe something untrue; to deceive.
- (heraldry) To draw (as opposed to blazon - to describe in words).
- They forget that they are in the statutes: […] there they are trick'd, they and their pedigrees.
- To dress; to decorate; to adorn fantastically; often followed by up, off, or out.
- 1735, Alexander Pope, Of the Characters of Women
- Trick her off in air.
- 1693, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education
- Tricking up their children in fine clothes.
- 1825, Thomas Macaulay, An Essay on John Milton
- They are simple, but majestic, records of the feelings of the poet; as little tricked out for the public eye as his diary would have been.
- 1735, Alexander Pope, Of the Characters of Women
Synonyms
- (to fool): con, dupe, fool, gull, have, hoodwink, pull the wool over someone's eyes, rip off
- (to trick out): mod
- See also Thesaurus:deceive
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
trick (comparative tricker, superlative trickest)
- Involving trickery or deception.
- Able to perform tricks.
- Defective or unreliable.
- (chiefly US, slang) Stylish or cool.
Danish
Etymology
From English trick.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [?t?????]
Noun
trick (singular definite tricket, plural indefinite trickene)
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Synonyms
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Further reading
- “trick” in Den Danske Ordbog
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gyp
English
Etymology 1
Perhaps from the term gypsy (“Roma”), due to a stereotype of the Roma as swindlers. Compare jew (“defraud”), from Jew, and welsh (“swindle by defaulting on a debt”), from Welsh.
Alternative forms
- gip, jip (eye dialect spellings)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d???p/
- Rhymes: -?p
Noun
gyp (plural gyps)
- (derogatory, sometimes offensive) A cheat or swindle; a rip-off.
- Why do we have to buy this new edition of the textbook when there’s almost no difference between it and the previous one? What a gyp!
- Synonym of gypsy (“contra dance step”)
Usage notes
Because this term is often considered to derive from the exonymic term Gypsy and represent a racist stereotype of the Romani, it may be offensive. See the usage note about gypsy.
Translations
Verb
gyp (third-person singular simple present gyps, present participle gypping, simple past and past participle gypped)
- (derogatory, sometimes offensive) To cheat or swindle someone or something inappropriately.
- The cab driver gypped me out of ten bucks by taking the longer route.
- You better watch out; they'll try to gyp you if you don't know what you're doing.
Usage notes
See the notes about the noun, above.
Etymology 2
Perhaps the same as Etymology 1. An earlier theory derived the term from Ancient Greek ??? (gúps, “vulture”) (/?ýps/; compare Greek ????? (gýpas) /??i.pas/), "in reference to thievish habits of the servants" (and then derived Etymology 1 thence), but this does not explain the pronunciation.
Noun
gyp (plural gyps)
- (Cambridge and Durham, England, now chiefly historical) A college servant, one who would attend upon a number of students, brushing their clothes, carrying parcels, waiting at parties and other tasks, distinct from a college porter or bedder.
- 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, 1919, Longmans, page 15,
- 'Why, what is the matter with you, John?' I asked of the gyp who waited on Vincey and myself.
- 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, I [Uniform ed., p. 14]:
- Had he acted discourteously to his bedmaker or his gyp, he would have minded just as much … .
- 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, 1919, Longmans, page 15,
- (Cambridge and Durham, England) The room in which such college servants work.
- (Cambridge and Durham, England) A small kitchen for use by college students.
Etymology 3
Shortening.
Noun
gyp (plural gyps)
- Gypsophila.
Etymology 4
Perhaps from gee up.
Noun
gyp (plural gyps)
- Pain or discomfort.
- My back's giving me gyp.
See also
- jew down
- welsh
References
- Gyp: Thieve, World Wide Words
- Etymology of "Gyp" / "gypped", Vocaboly.com
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