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tricksy

[ trik-see ]

adjective

, trick·si·er, trick·si·est.
  1. Also given to tricks; mischievous; playful; prankish.
  2. difficult to handle or deal with.
  3. Archaic. tricky; crafty; wily.
  4. Archaic. fashionably trim; spruce; smart.


tricksy

/ ˈtrɪksɪ /

adjective

  1. playing tricks habitually; mischievous
  2. crafty or difficult to deal with
  3. archaic.
    well-dressed; spruce; smart
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈtricksiness, noun
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Other Words From

  • tricksi·ly adverb
  • tricksi·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of tricksy1

1545–55; trick + -s 3 + -y 1; -sy
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Example Sentences

Her horns bedecked with ribbons gay, And garlanded with rosy may,—A tricksy sight.

The river is about five miles from shore to shore, and we have known it of old for a most enticing and tricksy customer.

Madame von Marwitz now looked at her and as she looked the tricksy light of malice again grew in her eye.

Wasn't I born on a Easter Sunday, wid the power to see the good people, an' the little people, an' all the tricksy tribes?

Sometimes a tricksy, half-provoked desire to break through the barricade of his stoicism tempted her.

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