Trickery
/ˈtrɪkəri/noun
Deceptive or cunning behavior; the use of tricks.
Did you know?In early English, related forms of *trick* could mean a clever turn or a playful device, and only later hardened into the modern sense of deception and fraud.
Etymological Timeline
Late Middle English
English
trikery
“deceitful behavior; artifice”
Middle English
English
trik
“a trick, prank, or cunning device”
Middle Dutch
NL
tricke
“a trick, prank, or deceit”
Late Latin
Latin
tricae
“trifles, perplexities, evasions”
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*trek-
“to rub, twist, or turn”