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tricksome, a.|ˈtrɪksəm|
[f. trick n. or v. + -some.]
1. Given to playing tricks; = tricky a. 1.
1648Church-lands not to be sold 48 The Pope had made..the necessity,..that he might fleece the Clergy; which that just Councel well weighing,..made him finde some other tricksom way, to salve his necessity. 1761Antiq. in Ann. Reg. 169/2 The Dracs, supposed to be malicious, or at least tricksome demons. 1821New Monthly Mag. III. 555/2 Mr. Kemble was often artificial; but all his art was employed on those passages where Mr. Kean is merely tricksome. 1858Lytton What will he do? x. v, I have been a tricksome shifty vagrant.
2. Playful, sportive, frolicsome.
1815J. Scott Vis. Paris (ed. 2) I. ii. 17 Some ladies..their flowing shawls..and tricksome gait, bade our young gentlemen prepare their compliments in a new language. 1824Examiner 107/2 A tricksome youth full of mischievous merriment. 1832L. Hunt Poems, To J. H. 27 My tricksome Puck. 1870F. Jacox Rec. Recluse I. xii. 249 [He] has pictured Handel with..his delicacies and tricksome graces.
b. Of music.
1820L. Hunt Indicator No. 60 (1822) II. 60 The most tricksome harmonies and accompaniments of Mozart and Beethoven. 1822Examiner 266/1 The situations are often too serious, and the devotion too solemn, to allow of tricksome passages. |