trickish

adj

trickish

adj

/ˈtɹɪkɪʃ/

Etymology From trick + -ish.

1

Using tricks or trickery.

  • 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.1819, The London Medical and Physical Journal, page 201:

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