tricksy

[ trik-see ]

adjective,trick·si·er, trick·si·est.
  1. Also tricksome. given to tricks; mischievous; playful; prankish.

  2. difficult to handle or deal with.

  1. Archaic. tricky; crafty; wily.

  2. Archaic. fashionably trim; spruce; smart.

Origin of tricksy

1
1545–55; trick + -s3 + -y1; cf. -sy

Other words from tricksy

  • trick·si·ly, adverb
  • trick·si·ness, noun

Words Nearby tricksy

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How to use tricksy in a sentence

  • 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.

    Palmetto-Leaves | Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Madame von Marwitz now looked at her and as she looked the tricksy light of malice again grew in her eye.

    Tante | Anne Douglas Sedgwick
  • 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?

    The Harbor Master | Theodore Goodridge Roberts
  • Sometimes a tricksy, half-provoked desire to break through the barricade of his stoicism tempted her.

    Big Timber | Bertrand W. Sinclair

British Dictionary definitions for tricksy

tricksy

/ (ˈtrɪksɪ) /


adjective-sier or -siest
  1. playing tricks habitually; mischievous

  2. crafty or difficult to deal with

  1. archaic well-dressed; spruce; smart

Derived forms of tricksy

  • tricksiness, noun

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