Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Legerdemain; jugglery; deception.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Trickery; also, a trick.
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- noun obsolete
trickery ; atrick
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sionnach commented on the word tregetry
juggling; deception, trickery.
Ther saugh I Colle tregetour
Upon a table of sicamour
Pleye an uncouthe thing to telle;
I saugh him carien a wind-melle (carry a windmill)
Under a walsh-note shale. (walnut shell)
– Geoffrey Chaucer, The House of Fame
December 8, 2008
bilby commented on the word tregetry
Bet Chaucer would be impressed with qms limericks.
January 25, 2016
qms commented on the word tregetry
Thank you kindly, bilby:
As compliments go that's a dilly,
But I versify willy-nilly.
Old Geoffrey could rhyme
On matters sublime
While I merely strive for the silly.
January 26, 2016