Reverse Dictionary: TRICKY

ADJECTIVES
► CADDLING of persons: tricky, pettifogging, shuffling → Bk1898 Eng. dial.
► CAGERY tricky → 1883 Eng. dial.
► CROOKEDY ► CROOKETY tricky, unreliable → 1922 Amer. dial.
► FASHIOUS of a task: tricky, ticklish → 1731 Sc.
► FASHOUS troublesome, annoying, irksome; of a task: tricky, ticklish → 1731 Sc.
► GAFTY sly, tricky, cunning, not to be trusted; mischievous, vicious → Bk1900 Eng. dial.
► HOOK AND SNIVEY ► HOOK AND SNIVVY ► HOOKEM-SNIVEY ► HOOKUM-SNIVEY deceitful, tricky, sly → 1892 Eng. dial. & sl.
► ILL-CONTRIVED ill-tempered, badly behaved, tricky, mischievous → 1880 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► ILL-CONTRIVING ill-tempered, badly behaved, tricky, mischievous → 1880 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► ITEMY trifling; tricky, fidgety → 1889 Eng. dial.
► JADISH malicious; tricky; untrustworthy → Bk1896 sl.
► LEGERDEMAIN pert. to legerdemain or jugglery; juggling; tricky → 1576
► MISCHIEVOUS cheating, tricky, dishonest → 1773 Sc.  
► NASTIFIED dishonourable, tricky, ungentlemanly → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► PLISKY given to playing tricks; tricky, mischievous, frolicsome → 1887 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► QUIRKIE cunning, wily, resourceful, tricky → 1806 Sc.
► QUIRKSOME quirky; full of quirks or shifts; tricky → 1896 rare
► QUIRKY cunning, wily, resourceful, tricky → 1806 Sc.
► SCALY miserly, stingy, mean; thievish, dishonest, tricky → 1851 Eng. dial.
► SCHEMY scheming; devious, tricky, sly → 1888 Amer. dial.
► SKITTISH fickle, inconstant, changeable; tricky, difficult to deal with or manage → 1601
► STICKY of a situation, event, issue, etc.: awkward, difficult, tricky; disagreeable, uncomfortable → 1871 colloq.
► TACKY tricky, hard to beat, cunning → 1950s W. Indies sl.
► WAFF troublesome, unchancy, tricky → 1865 Sc.

ADVERBS
► PALTERLY shiftily, trickily → 1598 obs.

NOUNS
► DOUBLING an evasion, a shift; deceitful or tricky action; double dealing → 1573
► RAKE any form of trickiness, such as a duplicitous answer that hides the true situation → 1950s W. Indies sl.

NOUNS – PERSON
► BILK an untrustworthy, tricky person → Bk1895
► CHAPARRAL FOX a sneak, or a sly, tricky person → 1932 Amer. dial.
► GILWHEEVY a tricky sort of fellow → 1929 Sc.
► LAD a mischievous, tricky fellow → 19C Anglo-Irish
► NACKET a pert, forward, smart boy; an impertinent, mischievous, or wicked child; a tricky or precocious → 1833 Sc.