Tricksy

Definition: Tricksy

Tricksy

Adjective

1. Marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tricksy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Note: Tricksy \Trick"sy\, adjective. [From Trick.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Tricksy

Beauty

Goodly, dapper, tight, jimp; gimp; janty, jaunty; trig, natty, quaint, trim, tidy,neat, spruce, smart, tricksy.

Cheerfulness

Playful, playsome; folatre, playful as a kitten, tricksy, frisky, frolicsome; gamesome; jocose, jocular, waggish; mirth loving, laughter-loving; mirthful, rollicking.

Cunning

Adjective: cunning, crafty, artful; skillful; subtle, feline, vulpine; cunning as a fox, cunning as a serpent; deep, deep laid; profound; designing, contriving; intriguing;Verb: strategic, diplomatic, politic, Machiavelian, timeserving; artificial; tricky, tricksy; wily, sly, slim, insidious, stealthy; underhand; (hidden); subdolous; deceitful; slippery as an eel, evasive; crooked; arch, pawky, shrewd, acute; sharp, sharp as a tack, sharp as a needle; canny, astute, leery, knowing, up to snuff, too clever by half, not to be caught with chaff.

Crosswords: Tricksy

Albanian

kapriçioz (capricious, crotchety, faddish, faddy, fanciful, vagarious, whimsical), i pasigurt (chancy, crazy, Dickey, dicky, disputable, doubtful, dubious, faithless, fly-by-night, incalculable, insecure, precarious, questionable, touch and go, trustless, truthless, unassured, uncertain, unclear, unreliable, unsafe, unsteady, unsure, untrustworthy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стегнат (close-textured, compact, concise, crisp, firm, natty, neat, rakish, sailorly, serried, sinewy, soldierlike, soldierly, spiffing, spiffy, taut, tidy, tight, trig, trim, well groomed), спретнат (dapper, dinky, prim, rakish, sailorly, smart, smug, snug, tidy, tight, trig, trim, well groomed), шеговит (facetious, frolic, humorous, jesting, jocose, joky, macaronic, merry, pleasant, prankish, quizzical, sportful, waggish), капризен (capricious, erratic, faddish, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fastidious, fickle, fractious, freakish, freaky, fretful, ill, inconstant, maggoty, particular, petulant, skittish, vagarious, vagrant, wayward, whimsical), мъчен за боравене, ловък (able, adroit, agile, artful, dodgy, handy, knacky, knowing, light fingered, natty, neat, neat-handed, peart, politic, pretty, shrewd, skilful, skillful, slick, swift-handed, tricky, wary, whizbang), игрив (blithe, coltish, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, jocose, kittenish, mischievous, monkeyish, pert, playful, skittish, sportful, sportive, wanton), изкусен (adroit, clever, cunning, daedal, expert, light fingered, masterful, mean, neat, proficient, scientific, sharp, skilful, skilled, skillful, slick, subtle, technic, technical, versed, workmanlike). (various references)

Czech

hravý (airy, gamesome, kittenish, playful, sportful, sportive). (various references)

Greek 

παιχνιδιάρικοσ (kittenish, playful). (various references)

Hungarian

takaros (dapper, dinky, natty, neat, picked, proper, Spruce, tidy, trig, trim), ravasz (acute, artful, astute, be cunning, cagey, cagy, calculating, canny, catchy, colubrine, crafted, crafty, cunning, cute, deep, drafty, draughty, elusive, foxy, gimmicky, guileful, insidious, knowing, leery, pawky, shifty, shrewd, slick, slim, sly, to know how many beans make five, trappy, tricky, trigger, vulpine, wily), elmés (ingenious, tricky), díszes (arabesque, caparison, fancy, gilded, ornate, stately, storied, tidy), cicomás (stilted), agyafúrt (artful, coony, cute, dodgy, foxy, leery, out and out, pawky, sharp, shrewd, sly, tricky, wily). (various references)

Pig Latin

icksytray

Portuguese

travesso (chaffy, elfish, elvish, frolic, mischievous, playful, prankish, wanton, wheeler-dealer), manhoso (cagey, designing, jesuitic, jesuitical, machiavellian, pawky, sharp, shifty, slick, sly, tricky, vulpine, wily), malicioso (arch, bland, catty, despiteful, devilish, evil-minded, guileful, malicious, mischievous, mordacious, nasty, parlous, pawky, piquant, puckish, salty, vicious, wanton), esperto (agile, astute, bobbish, brainy, bright, clever, cute, informed, ingenious, intelligent, knowing, live, politic, salted, sharp, shrewd, sly, smart, sprightly, stirring, watchful, wide-awake), brincalhão (frisky, frolic, gamesome, jester, jesting, jocular, joker, joky, kittenish, larky, mischievous, playful, prankish, rollicking, sportful, sporting, sportive, waggish, wanton), astuto (acute, adroit, arch, artful, astucious, astute, canny, clearheaded, clever, crafty, cunning, designing, guileful, jesuitic, jesuitical, leery, longheaded, machiavellian, perspicacious, sharp, shifty, shrewd, sly, smart, sophisticated, subtil, subtile, subtle, tricky, vulpine, wily). (various references)

Romanian

poznaş (arch, elfish, funny, prankish, rogue, roguish, scapegrace, tricky, wag, waggish, wanton, wit). (various references)

Russian 

разодетый, ненадежный (dicky, fair weather, fast and loose, fly-by-night, incalculable, insecure, precarious, shaky, slippery, troublesome, trustless, truthless, uncertain, undependable, unreliable, unsafe, unsound, unsure, untrustworthy, wonky). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vragolast (mischievous, monkeyish, playful, waggish), udešen, prepreden (artful, cagey, cagy, cunning, guileful, politic, sharp, shrewd, slick, sly, smart, subtle, tricky, vulpine), doteran (groomed, polished, sleek, spruce, straight out, trig, trim, trimmed, well groomed). (various references)

Turkish

oyuncu (actor, frisky, gambler, hoaxer, performer, play actor, player, playful, prankish, sportive, thespian, trickster, tricky), oyunbaz (wangler, wanton), numaracı (affected, affecting, fake, faker, fakir, poser, poseur, shammer, simulator), muzip (buffoon, hoaxer, prankish, puckish, quizzical, rogue, sly, teasing, tormenting, waggish, wicked), 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, trickish, tricky, urbane, vaporous), hileli (dishonest, false, fraudulent, sharp, tortuous, trick, trickish, tricky, twisty, unfair), güç (ability, arduous, arm, baffling, capability, capacity, clout, clutch, clutches, command, control, difficult, dominance, energy, force, forcefulness, hard, intensity, iron, might, pep, pith, potency, potential, power, punch, rod, sinew, spirit, stamina, steam, sting, strength, stuffing, sword, tone, vigor, vigour, vim, vis, vitality, zing), aldatıcı (baffling, beguiling, catchy, colorable, colored, coloured, deceptive, delusive, devious, dishonest, double dealing, elusory, fake, fallacious, googly, hype, illusive, illusory, indirect, specious, treacherous, trickish, tricky), üçkâğıtçı (blackleg, cheat, chiseler, chiseller, confidence man, confidence trickster, grifter, guileful, humbug, knave, knavish, sharper, swindler, trickish, trickster, tricky, wangler). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tinh ranh; tinh nghịch, láu lỉnh (mischievous), láu cá (crafty, cunning, devious, dodgy, foxlike, leery, tricky). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: sticky, strick, tricks, tricky.

-2 letters: ricks, risky, skirt, stick, stirk, ticks, trick.

-3 letters: cist, city, cris, cyst, icky, irks, kirs, kist, kits, kris, rick, risk, scry, sick, skit, stir, tick, tics.

-4 letters: cis, cry, ick, icy, irk, its, kir, kit, sic, sir, sit, ski, sky, sri, sty, tic, tis, try, tsk.

-5 letters: is, it, si.

+2 letters: yardstick.

+3 letters: trickishly, yardsticks.

+4 letters: persnickety.

+5 letters: skyrocketing, tracklayings.