different between trickery vs jugglery

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Old French tricherie?”)

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /t??.k?.?i/

Noun

trickery (countable and uncountable, plural trickeries)

1. (uncountable) Deception or underhanded behavior.
2. (uncountable) The art of dressing up; imposture.
3. (uncountable) Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.
4. (countable) An instance of deception, underhanded behavior, dressing up, imposture, artifice, etc.
   • 1898, Bret Harte, "See UP" in Stories in Light and Shadow:

     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.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:deception

Translations

References

• trickery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

juggle +? -ery

Noun

jugglery (countable and uncountable, plural juggleries)

1. (uncountable) The art of a juggler (i.e. trickery or deception).
   • 1819, Sir Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor, ch. 31:

     Omens were expounded, dreams were interpreted, and other tricks of jugglery perhaps resorted to, by which the pretended adepts of the period deceived and fascinated their deluded followers.

2. (countable) An instance of such trickery or deception.
   • 1942, Walter de la Mare, "All Hallows" in Best Stories of Walter de la Mare:

     What they call the Great War is over […] and yet what do we see around us? Nothing but strife and juggleries and hatred and contempt and discord wherever you look.

See also

• juggling