单词 | out-trick |
释义 | out-trickv. transitive. To surpass in tricking; to defeat by trickery. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > trick, hoax [verb (transitive)] > outdo by trickery out-trick1677 1677 A. Behn Rover i. ii. 14 Your Womans wit! your fair kind Woman! will out-trick a Broker or a Jew: and contrive like a Jesuit in Chains. 1692 T. D'Urfey Marriage-hater Match'd iv. ii. 39 Why this is the prettiest project to out-trick a Lawyer. 1715 E. Ward Hist. Grand Rebellion iii. 530 A Parliament conven'd, whose Members knew How Cromwel had out-trick'd the former two. 1780 M. P. Andrews Fire & Water ii. ii. 33 In love or in war, He'll out-trick you far, And shine in the cabinet council. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. iii. v. 267 The weaker party was endeavouring to out-trick the stronger. 1867 W. M. Thackeray Early & Late Papers 109 Perdition! to have been out-tricked by a boy and a country boor! a1958 D. Schwartz New & Sel. Poems (1967) 236 How with his very failure, he out-tricked The florid Douglas and the abstract Davis. 2002 Evening Standard (Nexis) 8 May 78 They had the reserve, John Curtis, playing at right-back, and a number of times during the first half alone I out-tricked him and came close to scoring. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1677 |
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