Definition of trickery Trickery

/tɹɪˈkɚi/ - [trikeree] - trick•er•y

We found 6 definitions of trickery from 5 different sources.

What does trickery mean?

Noun Plural: trickeries
trickery - the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
		chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan
		dissimulation, dissembling, deceit, deception the act of deceiving
		dupery, hoax, fraud, fraudulence, humbug, put-on something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
trickery - verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
		hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery
		misrepresentation, deceit, deception a misleading falsehood

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trickery (Noun)
The art of dressing up ; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.

trickery (n.)
The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.

Trickery is the act of misdirection (leading into the wrong way of thinking) or an illusion (seeing things that are not true).

For example, magic tricks are when someone makes the person seeing it think that the magic they are doing is true, but it actually isn't. But magic tricks can also be good, since children can enjoy the magic more.

A trick can also mean to lie or misdirect (lead to wrong way of thinking) a person so that someone who is "tricking" the person can enjoy winning the game they are playing for example gambling.

Animal Tricks.

A useful action taught to an animal, for example from "shaking hands" to handing back tools or dropped objects so that people seeing the action can enjoy the trick.

In the Norse mythology.

Loki is the God of trickery and cunning in the Norse Mythology.