trickish, a.
(ˈtrɪkɪʃ)
[f. trick n. + -ish1.]
1. Characterized by or given to tricks or trickery; rather tricky, crafty, or cunning.
| 1705 Stanhope Paraphr. II. 391 The little trickish Arts of Dissimulation. 1760 J. Adams Diary 18 Dec., His habitual trickish, lying, cheating disposition. 1879 McCarthy Own Times II. xviii. 19 The somewhat cunning and trickish agitation which O'Connell had set going. |
2. = tricky 2; ticklish a. 5.
| 1900 C. Lee Cynthia v. 72 Terr'ble trickish work. 1907 Black Cat June 24 It was trickish work handling a canoe among those pounding logs and frequent dead-heads. |
Hence ˈtrickishly adv., ˈtrickishness.
| 1788 V. Knox Winter Even. xxxiv. (1790) I. 291 That odium, which..has branded the whole tribe with charges of duplicity..and trickishness. 1824 Examiner 57/1 Religion, trickishly wedded to Priestcraft. 1897 Sarah Grand Beth Bk. xxii, It was another instance of the trickishness of her memory. |