trickish

English

Etymology

trick +‎ -ish

Adjective

trickish (comparative more trickish, superlative most trickish)

  1. Using tricks or trickery.
    • 1819, The London Medical and Physical Journal (page 201)
      It often happens that a person who knows very well how to milk cannot get milk from certain cows. Some are delicate in this respect, others are trickish: the former can only give their milk to certain persons; the latter will only do so to those that excite them in a certain manner.
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