trickie

English

Etymology

From trick +‎ -ie.

Noun

trickie (plural trickies)

  1. (colloquial, rare) Diminutive of trick.
    • 1998 April 6, J. White, “Mars in Cancer and Libra -The insecure and overcompensatory ego”, in alt.astrology.metapsych‎[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 1 December 2025:
      Not at all...this is one of Eddie's little trickies. He sets the followups to his (or some innocent person's) email address. Ain't he charmin'?
    • 1998 November 27, Gina!, “¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿”, in alt.silly.little.newsgroup‎[2] (Usenet), archived from the original on 1 December 2025:
      wow, this is rad. thanks any more little trickies up your sleeviesż[sic]
    • 2002 February 4, Rich Grise, “Just one”, in alt.jokes.limericks‎[3] (Usenet), archived from the original on 1 December 2025:
      I know that that one makes no sense, / Forgive me for being so dense, / But limericks do / Need a trickie or two / I hope that I give no offense.
    • 2009 March 23, Graham Hobbs, “return values and variables”, in alt.msdos.batch‎[4] (Usenet), archived from the original on 1 December 2025:
      More to the point is that the file is accessible ad infinitum in most environments. Learned this from foxidrive and bilious last year. I use it - simpler than learning all the little trickies of DOS commands (well, for me anyway):-).

Scots

Adjective

trickie (comparative mair trickie, superlative maist trickie)

  1. tricky; full of tricks
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