electrickery

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noun

Electricity, or the technological advances that it underpins.

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Meanings

nounelectrickery (uncountable)
  1. humorousuncountableElectricity, or the technological advances that it underpins.

    "Why did we return to this time, Touchwood?" Catweazle asked the toad. "Why did we leave the world of electrickery?"

    1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 8
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    Yez can't expect, soshallism to work hand in hand with flyin' machines, electrickery, an' all th' other various an' many infernal inventions what have come about in this age of nervous' an' high-tenshioned fackadoodalums.

    1910 May 28, The Newcastle Herald and Toodyay District Chronicle, WA, page 7, column 1

Origin

Blend of electricity + trickery.

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APA

electrickery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/electrickery

MLA

“electrickery.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/electrickery. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “electrickery,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/electrickery.

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