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Definition of Trickish
1. a. Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish.
Definition of Trickish
1. Adjective. Who uses tricks or trickery. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Trickish
1. tricky [adj] - See also: tricky
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trickish
Literary usage of Trickish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"Treacherous; artful ; trickish ; deceitful ; subtle. ... Full of artifice;
trickish; subtle; deceitful; performed by artifice ; treacherous. ..."
2. A Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language: To which is Appended an English by Lorrin Andrews (1865)
"To be saucy ; to be playful ; to be trickish ; to tease one ; to run upon. 2.
To prick ; to enter, ... To be trickish ; to be mischievous. HO-NE-HO-NE, adj. ..."
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