different between trickery vs trickish

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

trick +? -ish

Adjective

trickish (comparative more trickish, superlative most trickish)

1. Using tricks or trickery.
   • 1819, The London Medical and Physical Journal (page 201)

     It often happens that a person who knows very well how to milk cannot get milk from certain cows. Some are delicate in this respect, others are trickish: the former can only give their milk to certain persons; the latter will only do so to those that excite them in a certain manner.