Antic vs Trick - What's the difference?

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Antic is a related term of trick.

As an adjective antic

is ancient.

As a noun trick is

trick.

antic

English

Alternative forms

* antick

Adjective

(en adjective)

(architecture, arts) Grotesque, incongruous.

Grotesque, bizarre; absurd.

Noun

(en noun)

(architecture, arts, obsolete) A grotesque representation of a figure; a gargoyle.

A caricature.

(often in plural) A ludicrous gesture or act; ridiculous behaviour.

* Wordsworth

And fraught with antics as the Indian bird / That writhes and chatters in her wiry cage.

* 1953 , John Christopher, Blemish

I saw the barren horror of your people's leisure with the million entertained by the antics of a tiny few

* 2007 , , Time To Add A Cute Kid To The Cast Questionable Content Number 951

Pintsize: Wait, don’t you want to know why I’m tied up and hanging from the ceiling? / Faye: Not really. Nighty night! / Pintsize: Shit! My wacky antics have jumped the shark!

A grotesque performer or clown.

A pose, often exaggerated, in anticipation of an action; for example, a brief squat before jumping

Verb

To perform antics.

(obsolete) To make a fool of, to cause to look ridiculous.

* , Act II, Scene VII:

Gentle lords, let's part; / You see we have burnt our cheeks: strong Enobarb / Is weaker than the wine; and mine own tongue / Splits what it speaks: the wild disguise hath almost / Antick'd us all.

(rare) To perform (an action) as an antic; to mimic ridiculously.

* 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, page 70:

She unfastened her dress, her arms arched thin and high, her shadow anticking her movements.

To make appear like a buffoon.

(Shakespeare)

References

* OED 2nd edition 1989 * *

Anagrams

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References

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trick

English

Adjective

(er)

(slang) Stylish or cool.

Wow, your new sportscar is so trick .

Noun

(en noun)

Something designed to fool or swindle.

A single piece (or business) of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act.

An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.

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Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank.

the tricks of boys

(Prior)

(dated) A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait.

a trick''' of drumming with the fingers; a '''trick of frowning

* William Shakespeare, King Lear act IV, scene VI:

The trick of that voice I do well remember.

* William Shakespeare,King John Act I, scene I

He hath a trick of Cœur de Lion's face.

A knot, braid, or plait of hair.

(Ben Jonson)

(card games) A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined.

* Alexander Pope

On one nice trick depends the general fate.

(slang) An act of prostitution. Generally used with turn .

(slang) A customer to a prostitute.

An entertaining difficult physical action.

A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs.

* 1885 , Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, The Conductor and Brakeman , page 496:

On third trick from 12 m. to 8 am, we have W. A. White, formerly operator at Wallula, who thus far has given general satisfaction.

* 1899 , New York (State), Bureau of Statistics, Deptartment of Labor, Annual Report :

Woodside Junction—On 8 hour basis, first trick' $60, second '''trick''' $60, third ' trick $50.

* 1949 , Labor arbitration reports , page 738:

The Union contends that Fifer was entitled to promotion to the position of Group Leader on the third trick in the Core Room Department.

(nautical) A sailor's spell of work at the helm, usually two hours long.

A toy; a trifle; a plaything.

(Shakespeare)

Synonyms

* (something designed to trick) artifice, con, gambit, ploy, rip-off, See also * (magic trick) illusion, magic trick, sleight of hand * (customer to a prostitute) john, see also * (entertaining difficult physical action) * (daily period of work) shift

Verb

(en verb)

To fool; to cause to believe something untrue; to deceive.

You tried to trick me when you said that house was underpriced.

(heraldry) To draw (as opposed to blazon - to describe in words).

* 1600 , Hamlet , , by Shakespeare

The rugged Pyrrhus, he whose sable arms, / Black as his purpose, did the night resemble / When he lay couched in the ominous horse, / Hath now this dread and black complexion smear'd / With heraldry more dismal; head to foot / Now is he total gules; horridly trick'd / With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons

* Ben Jonson

They forget that they are in the statutes: there they are tricked , they and their pedigrees.

To dress; to decorate; to adorn fantastically; often followed by up'', ''off'', or ''out .

* Alexander Pope

Trick her off in air.

* John Locke

Tricking up their children in fine clothes.

* Macaulay

They are simple, but majestic, records of the feelings of the poet; as little tricked out for the public eye as his diary would have been.

Synonyms

* (to fool) con, dupe, fool, gull, have, hoodwink, pull the wool over someone's eyes, rip off * (to trick out) mod * See also

Derived terms

* bag of tricks * cheap trick * dirty trick * do the trick * hat trick * how's tricks? * Jedi mind trick * magic trick * politricks * tricker * trickery * trickiness * tricknology * trick out * trick or treat * trick point * trick shot * trickster * tricky * turn a trick, turn tricks