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tricksome - definition and meaning
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from The Century Dictionary.
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adjective tricks or trickery ; cunning .
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trick + -some
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If so, I think I will steal these tricksome methods.
Another trick I'm using with the feds 2007
Thanks for the heads-up - submitted something - I found the tricksome bit was finding that worked when taken out of context of the blog as a whole.
Shaggy Blog Stories annawaits 2007
Could it be that after thinking him lofty and witty in soul, his young, his artless, his tricksome mistress now thought him handsome?
Modeste Mignon 2007
This year, although the festival was kind of weak, either their beginner's luck or my tricksome cine-askari instincts got us to some top quality cinematic billabongs.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2006
Martha — pretty, winning, mischievous, tricksome Martha — was taken ill suddenly at the Chateau de
The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2002
It seemed to play in a tricksome way; it sure was a merry thing.
Ballads of a Cheechako 1916
You know it's tricksome for one accustomed mainly to men's affairs ....
Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel Will Levington Comfort 1905
Ah, I've got other things as is waiting to be done nor breaking in a tricksome filly to run atween the shafts.
Six Plays Florence Henrietta Fisher Darwin 1892
He did not impute a personality like ours to Nature, but he saw joy and rapture and play, even love, moving in everything; and sometimes headded to this delight she has in herself -- and just because the creature was not human -- a touch of elemental unmoral malice, a tricksome sportiveness like that of Puck in _Midsummer Night's Dream_.
The Poetry Of Robert Browning 1874
But the same cannot be proved of Poseidon; 5 far less of Hermes, who is identical with the Vedic Sarameyas, the rising wind, the son of Sarama the dawn, the lying, tricksome wind-god, who invented music, and conducts the souls of dead men to the house of Hades, even as his counterpart the Norse Odin rushes over the tree-tops leading the host of the departed.
Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology 1872
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