different between trickery vs thimblerig

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

From thimble +? rig.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /???mb?l???/
• Hyphenation: thim?ble?rig

Noun

thimblerig (countable and uncountable, plural thimblerigs)

1. A game of skill which requires the bettor to guess under which of three small cups (or thimbles) a pea-sized object has been placed after the party operating the game rapidly rearranges them, providing opportunity for sleight-of-hand trickery; a shell game.

   Synonym: shell game

2. One operating such a game.

   Synonym: thimblerigger

Translations

Verb

thimblerig (third-person singular simple present thimblerigs, present participle thimblerigging, simple past and past participle thimblerigged)

1. (intransitive) To cheat in the thimblerig game.
2. (transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To cheat (someone) by trickery.

See also

• three-card monte

Further reading

• thimblerig on Wikipedia.Wikipedia