Definition of CHICANERY

chicanery

Meanings

Plural: chicaneries

Noun

  • the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
  • Deception by the use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.
  • An individual act of trickery or deception.
  • The quality of being inclined to trickery or deceitfulness.

Origin / Etymology

From French chicanerie (“trickery”), from chicaner, borrowed from Middle Low German schicken, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *skikkijan, from Proto-Germanic *skikkijaną. Related to German schicken (“to send, ship”), Middle English skekken (“to send forth, issue”).

Scrabble Score: 19

chicanery is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
chicanery is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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Words With Friends Score: 20

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