[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That tricks; cheating, deceiving; using trickery.
1697. Dryden, Virgil, Life (1721), I. 71. The Craft and Tricking part of Life, with which Homer abounds.
1790. Burke, Fr. Rev., Wks. V. 302. The degenerate fondness for tricking short-cuts, and little fallacious facilities.
1815. Scott, Guy M., xlvii. All the world knows him to be sordid, mean, tricking, and I suspect him to be worse.
Hence Trickingly adv., so as to cheat, artfully.
1833. Fraser’s Mag., VII. 244. The small portion of notice which you condescend to bestow on Mr. Lytton Bulwer in the Magazine of this month, so trickingly put to the well-known ritornella of ‘Whiston and Ditton.’
1868. Reading Times, 23 Sept., 2/1. There is a time when … the blood courses slowly and trickingly through the veins, in place of dashing on like a courser roused by the blast of the trumpet.
1919. S. F. Examiner, 27 July, 86/2. Some of the chorus girls had ‘lines’ to speak, and spoke them in the usual gorgeous style—little rifts of voice proceeding from mounds of clothes, trickingly as it were.
