tricking

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/ˈtɹɪkɪŋ/

noun

Dress; ornament.

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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of trick
nountricking (plural trickings)

plural trickings

  1. Dress; ornament.

    Go get us properties / And tricking for our fairies.

    c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv], line 77
adjectivetricking (comparative more tricking, superlative most tricking)

comparative more tricking · superlative most tricking

  1. archaicDeceptive; using trickery.

    [I]t is the degenerate fondness for tricking short-cuts, and little fallacious facilities, that has in so many parts of the world created governments with arbitrary powers.

    1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with tricking

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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