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electrickery

electrickery noun: electricity, or the technological advances that it underpins.

Noun

electrickery (uncountable)

  1. (humorous) Electricity, or the technological advances that it underpins.
    • Yez can't expect, soshallism to work hand in hand with flyin' machines, electrickery, an' all th' other various an' many infernal inventions what have come about in this age of nervous' an' high-tenshioned fackadoodalums.1910 May 28, The Newcastle Herald and Toodyay District Chronicle, WA, page 7, column 1
    • "Why did we return to this time, Touchwood?" Catweazle asked the toad. "Why did we leave the world of electrickery?"1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 8

Origin of electrickery

Blend of electricity + trickery.

Questions about electrickery

What does electrickery mean?
Electrickery means electricity, or the technological advances that it underpins.
What part of speech is electrickery?
Electrickery is a noun.

Words near electrickery in the dictionary

  1. electricity-generating
  2. electricize
  3. electricized
  4. electricizing
  5. electrick
  6. electrickery
  7. electricks
  8. electricness
  9. electrics
  10. electricute
  11. electride

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