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TRICKISH

Definition: TRICKISH

TRICKISH

Adjective

1. Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "TRICKISH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1780. (references)

 

Crosswords: TRICKISH

English words defined with "TRICKISH": Double dealerFraudfulKnackish, KnackyWileful. (references)
Etymologies containing "TRICKISH": Knacky. (references)

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Modern Translation: TRICKISH

Language Translations for "TRICKISH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏مخادع (artful, bluff, bluffer, crafty, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, devious, dishonest, disingenuous, double, double dealing, double-tongued, face, false, fraudulent, hustler, illusive, illusory, indirect, insincere, misguiding, misleading, sly, tricky, underhand, wily), ‏خادع (bluffy, crafty, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, delusory, dishonest, double dealing, fallacious, false, fool, illusive, illusory, insincere, misleading, rip off, tricky, wily). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κατεργάρικοσ (knavish, son of a gun, tricky). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ickishtray.(various references)

   

Turkish

  

zor (arduous, baffling, constraint, crucial, cruel, difficult, exacting, force, formidable, hairy, hard, inconvenient, knotty, main, mean, might, rough, sticky, stiff, strain, tight, uneasy), nazik (affable, attentive, brittle, civil, civilized, civil-spoken, complaisant, considerate, courteous, dainty, debonair, debonaire, decent, delicate, distingue, Douce, eggshell, exquisite, fair, genteel, gentle, gracious, kid glove, kind, mannerly, mild, obliging, parliamentary, polished, polite, suave, sweet-natured, tender, ticklish, tickly, touchy, tricky, urbane, well disposed), ince (attenuate, attic, brittle, civilized, courteous, dainty, delicate, fine, fragile, graceful, gracile, gracious, keen, lean, nice, polite, precision, refined, scarious, sharp, slender, slim, subtile, subtle, sylphish, sylphlike, sylphy, tenuous, thin, tricksy, tricky, urbane, vaporous), hileli (dishonest, false, fraudulent, sharp, tortuous, trick, tricksy, tricky, twisty, unfair), aldatıcı (baffling, beguiling, catchy, colorable, colored, coloured, deceptive, delusive, devious, dishonest, double dealing, elusory, fake, fallacious, googly, hype, illusive, illusory, indirect, specious, treacherous, tricksy, tricky), üçkâğıtçı (blackleg, cheat, chiseler, chiseller, confidence man, confidence trickster, grifter, guileful, humbug, knave, knavish, sharper, swindler, trickster, tricksy, tricky, wangler). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

xảo trá (captious, crafty, cunning, treacherous), xỏ lá (loopy, scampish, tricky), lắm thủ đoạn (designing, tricky). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: TRICKISH

Derivations

Words beginning with "TRICKISH": trickishly, trickishness, trickishnesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: TRICKISH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-h-i-i-k-r-s-t"

-2 letters: chirks, kirsch, kitsch, schrik, schtik, shtick, strick, thicks, tricks.

-3 letters: chirk, chits, hicks, kiths, ricks, rishi, shirk, shirt, shtik, skirt, stich, stick, stirk, thick, ticks, tikis, trick.

-4 letters: chis, chit, cist, cris, hick, hist, hits, ichs, iris, irks, itch, khis, kirs, kist, kith, kits, kris, rich, rick, risk, shri, sick, sith, skit, stir.

 Words containing the letters "c-h-i-i-k-r-s-t"
 

+2 letters: trickishly.

 

+3 letters: hitchhikers, ostrichlike.

 

+4 letters: trickishness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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