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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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rook
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??k/
- (sometimes in Northern England; otherwise obsolete) IPA(key): /?u?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
Etymology 1
From Middle English rok, roke, from Old English hr?c, from Proto-West Germanic *hr?k, from Proto-Germanic *hr?kaz (compare Old Norse hrókr, Saterland Frisian Rouk, Dutch roek, obsolete German Ruch), from Proto-Indo-European *kerk- (“crow, raven”) (compare Old Irish cerc (“hen”), Old Prussian kerko (“loon, diver”), dialectal Bulgarian ??????? (krókon, “raven”), Ancient Greek ????? (kórax, “crow”), Old Armenian ????? (ag?aw), Avestan ????????????????????????????????????? (kahrkatat?, “rooster”), Sanskrit ???? (k?kara, “rooster”)), Ukrainian ???? (kruk, “raven”).
Noun
rook (countable and uncountable, plural rooks)
- A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
- 1768, Thomas Pennant, British Zoology, 168:
- But what distinguishes the rook from the crow is the bill; the nostrils, chin, and sides of that and the mouth being in old birds white and bared of feathers, by often thrusting the bill into the ground in search of the erucæ of the Dor-beetle*; the rook then, instead of being proscribed, should be treated as the farmer's friend; as it clears his ground from caterpillars, that do incredible damage by eating the roots of the corn.
- 1768, Thomas Pennant, British Zoology, 168:
- A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:deceiver, Thesaurus:fraudster
- 7 April 1705, William Wycherley, Letter to Alexander Pope in The Works of Alexander Pope 36:
- So I am (like an old rook, who is ruined by gaming) forced to live on the good fortune of the pushing young men, whose fancies are so vigorous that they ensure their success in their adventures with Muses, by their strength and imagination.
- A bad deal; a rip-off.
- (Britain) A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
- (uncountable) A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
- 2007, Malcolm Bull and Keith Lockhart, Seeking a Sanctuary: Seventh-day Adventism and the American Dream, 174:
- Adventists still do not really know how to play cards, apart from the sanitized version of bridge, Rook.
- 2007, Malcolm Bull and Keith Lockhart, Seeking a Sanctuary: Seventh-day Adventism and the American Dream, 174:
Derived terms
- rookery
Translations
See also
- squab
Verb
rook (third-person singular simple present rooks, present participle rooking, simple past and past participle rooked)
- (transitive) To cheat or swindle.
- 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 311:
- Some had spent a week in Jersey before coming to Guernsey; and, from what Paddy had heard, they really do know how to rook the visitors over there.
- 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 311:
Synonyms
- (cheat, swindle): cheat, con, do, dupe, have, swindle
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English rook, roke, rok, from Old French roc, ultimately from Persian ??? (rox), from Middle Persian lhw' (rox, “rook, castle (chess)”), possibly from Sanskrit ?? (ratha, “chariot”). Compare roc.
Noun
rook (plural rooks)
- (chess) A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
- (rare) A castle or other fortification.
Synonyms
- (chesspiece): castle
- (castle): castle, fortress
Translations
See also
Etymology 3
From rookie.
Noun
rook (plural rooks)
- (baseball, slang) A rookie.
Etymology 4
From Middle English roke, rock, rok (“mist; vapour; drizzle; smoke; fumes”), from Old Norse *rauk, related to Icelandic rok, roka (“whirlwind; seafoam; seaspray”), Middle Dutch rooc, rok, Modern Dutch rook (“smoke; fog”).
Noun
rook (uncountable)
- mist; fog; roke
Etymology 5
Verb
rook (third-person singular simple present rooks, present participle rooking, simple past and past participle rooked)
- (obsolete) To squat; to ruck.
Etymology 6
Verb
rook (third-person singular simple present rooks, present participle rooking, simple past and past participle rooked)
- Pronunciation spelling of look.
References
Anagrams
- Koro, Kroo, koro, kroo, roko
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r???k/
Etymology 1
From Dutch rook (“smoke”), from Middle Dutch rôoc, from Old Dutch *r?k, from Proto-Germanic *raukiz.
Noun
rook (uncountable)
- smoke
Derived terms
- rookwolk
Etymology 2
From Dutch roken (“to smoke”).
Verb
rook (present rook, present participle rokende, past participle gerook)
- (intransitive, transitive) to smoke (a tobacco product or surrogate)
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ro?k/
- Hyphenation: rook
- Rhymes: -o?k
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch rôoc, from Old Dutch *r?k, from Proto-Germanic *raukiz.
Noun
rook m (uncountable)
- smoke
Derived terms
- roken
- rookontwikkeling
- rooksignaal
- rookwolk
Descendants
- Afrikaans: rook
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
rook
- first-person singular present indicative of roken
- imperative of roken
Verb
rook
- singular past indicative of ruiken
- singular past indicative of rieken
Anagrams
- koor
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