trick

Betekenis (Engels)

Synoniemen

conjuring trick

play a trick on

play a trick

strategem

play a joke on

gadget

pull a fast one on

break faith with

fawn on

spin around

take-in

tell lies

inside story

sinister design

risky attempt

criminal technique

special skill

evil design

sharp practise

evil scheme

half finished

new pattern

sinful act

cruel thing

deception tactics

hood wink

ingenious device

play the fool with someone

raise a diversion

deciet

playing tricks

use art

use trickery

leg-pulling

way of behavior

pursue tortuous course

jiggery pokery

skuldyggery

trappiness

special techniques

cum-savvy

deceive e.o

ability

be unfaithful

be unfaithful to

flat car

pull one’s leg

Frequentie

B1
Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/tɹɪk/
Etymologie (Engels)

From Middle English trikke, from Old Northern French trique (related to Old French trichier (“to defraud, act dishonestly, conceal, deceive, cheat”); > modern French tricher), itself possibly from Middle High German trechen (“to launch a shot at, play a trick on”), or one of its derivatives (e.g. Middle High German ūftrechen (“to do something to someone, hurt someone”), vertrechen (“to conceal, get over on someone”), zuotrechen (“to obtain falsely or deceitfully, wangle, finagle”), etc.); yet the Old French verb is equally likely to be derived from Vulgar Latin *triccāre, from Late Latin tricāre, from Latin trīcor, trīcārī (“dodge, search for detours; haggle, quibble”). The term has been connected to Middle Dutch treck, trec (“draw, line, desire, game move, cord, stratagem, ruse, trick”), from Middle Dutch trekken, trēken (“to pull, place, put, move”), from Old Dutch *trekken, *trekan (“to move, drag”), from Proto-Germanic *trakjaną, *trekaną (“to drag, scrape, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”). If they are related, trick would be cognate with Low German trekken, Middle High German trecken, trechen, Danish trække, and Old Frisian trekka, Romanian truc and other Romance languages. Compare track, treachery, trig, and trigger.

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