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Added 9 October 2026

chicanery

/ʃɪˈkeɪn(ə)ɹi/ noun

In Latin: calumnia Wiktionary

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about chicanery at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them).

Origin

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

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