tricking

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪkɪŋ/

Verb

tricking

1. present participle and gerund of trick

Noun

tricking (plural trickings)

1. Dress; ornament.
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv], line 77:

     Go get us properties / And tricking for our fairies.

Adjective

tricking (comparative more tricking, superlative most tricking)

1. (now rare) Deceptive; using trickery.
   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France:

     [I]t is the degenerate fondness for tricking short-cuts, and little fallacious facilities, that has in so many parts of the world created governments with arbitrary powers.