Wednesday, August 06, 2014

Today's word

chicane \shih-KAYN\ - to use deception : to trick or cheat
Though I've long been well familiar with chicanery - okay, peanut gallery, that isn't how I meant that - I was not familiar with either this verb or or its identical alternate noun form; and yes, I am surprised to learn that both of these post-date the word chicanery (in English, at least). 

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