a. [f. TRICK sb. + -ISH1.]
1. Characterized by or given to tricks or trickery; rather tricky, crafty, or cunning.
1705. Stanhope, Paraphr., II. 391. The little trickish Arts of Dissimulation.
1760. J. Adams, Diary, 18 Dec. His habitual trickish, lying, cheating disposition.
1879. McCarthy, Own Times, II. xviii. 19. The somewhat cunning and trickish agitation which O’Connell had set going.
2. = TRICKY 2; TICKLISH a. 5.
1900. C. Lee, Cynthia, v. 72. Terr’ble trickish work.
1907. Black Cat, June, 24. It was trickish work handling a canoe among those pounding logs and frequent dead-heads.
Hence Trickishly adv., Trickishness.
1788. V. Knox, Winter Even., xxxiv. (1790), I. 291. That odium, which … has branded the whole tribe with charges of duplicity … and trickishness.
1824. Examiner, 57/1. Religion, trickishly wedded to Priestcraft.
1897. Sarah Grand, Beth Bk., xxii. It was another instance of the trickishness of her memory.
