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▪ I. tricksy, a.|ˈtrɪksɪ|
Also 6–7 tricksie, -sey, trickesie, trixsie, trixy.
[app. f. tricks, pl. of trick n. + -y, with the natural meaning ‘given to, distinguished by, or abounding in tricks’.]
1. Artfully trimmed or decked; spruce, smart, fine.
1552Latimer Serm., John xv. 12 (1572) 153 Let them go as tricksie as they wil in this world, yet for all that they be foule and filthy inough before God. 1577Kendall Flowers Epigr. 19 b, Thou wandrest trixsie trimsie fine, with crispt and curled heare. 1589Fleming Virg. Georg. iii. 51 When he is new become againe, Hauing cast off his skin, and tricksie trim with youth afresh. 1598Florio, Immarzapanato, become or made fine,..sweete, or daintie,..trickesie, and trim as a marchpane. 1631Celestina vii. 88 To see every thing so trimme and tricksie about you. a1820J. R. Drake Culprit Fay iv. (1835) 12 Their little minim forms arrayed In the tricksy pomp of fairy pride! 1852D. G. Mitchell Dream Life 150 The tricksy panoply that he has wrought out of the mettle of his classics.
2. Full of or given to tricks or pranks; playful, sportive; mischievous, capricious, whimsical.
1596Shakes. Merch. V. iii. v. 74, I doe know A many fooles..Garnisht like him, that for a tricksie word Defie the matter. 1598Marston Sco. Villanie ii. Prol., Tricksey tales of speaking Cornish dawes. 1604Dekker Honest Wh. i. xi. Wks. 1873 II. 63 [Stage-direction] Enter Candido like a Prentise. Wife. Why how now mad-man, what in your tricksi-coats? 1610Shakes. Temp. v. i. 226 Ariel. Sir, all this seruice Haue I done... Prospero. My tricksey Spirit. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. i. iv, A rich, idiomatic diction, picturesque allusions, fiery poetic emphasis, or quaint tricksy turns. 1871R. Ellis Catullus ii. 5 My lady..Bends her splendour awhile to tricksy frolic. 1895Crockett Love Idylls (1901) 125 The tricksy maid clapped her hands and laughed merrily.
3. Full of tricks or deception; tricky, crafty, cunning, cheating.
1766Goldsm. Vic. W. xxvi, I still continued tricksy and cunning, and was poor, without the consolation of being honest. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (ed. 3) I. 25 The tricksy humilities of the ambitious candidates for the favorable suffrages of the judicious public. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 241 Willoughby had to tell of the escapades of tricksy trout.
4. That is apt to play tricks upon one; that needs cautious handling: = tricky a. 2, ticklish.
1835Willis Pencillings I. xxi. 146 The second and third stories are ornamented with tricksy-looking iron balconies. 1862Morn. Star 21 May, Kidderminster is a tricksy borough. Its people have a knack of taking their own way. 1900H. Sutcliff Shameless Wayne i, A lass is tricksy handling ut sich times.
Hence ˈtricksical a., inclined to be tricksy or to play tricks; ˈtricksily adv., in a tricksy or sportive manner.
1866Alger Solit. Nat. & Man iii. 163 The heathen deities,..that once tricksily danced over the classic landscapes. 1889Pall Mall G. 28 May 3 Imagination is, indeed, a tricksical jade.
▪ II. † ˈtricksy, v. Obs. rare.
In 6 trixie.
[f. prec.]
trans. To make ‘tricksy’ or spruce.
1598Florio, Nimfarsi, to trim, to smug, to trixie, to decke or spruce himselfe vp as a nimphe. |