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Cantrip vs Cantraip - What's the difference?

cantrip | cantraip |

As nouns the difference between cantrip and cantraip

is that cantrip is a spell or incantation; a trifling magic trick while cantraip is .

cantrip

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A spell or incantation; a trifling magic trick.
  • * 1976 , Kyril Bonfiglioli, Something Nasty in the Woodshed (Penguin 2001, p. 422)
  • For one thing, I've no intention of distributing cantrips and costly crucifixes to every rapable woman in the Parish of St Magloire.
  • * 1984 , Anthony Burgess, The Kingdom Of The Wicked
  • And when I say now the power of the name Jesus makes you whole, I indulge in no petty mountebank’s cantrips .
  • * 2009 , James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet, Witch and Wizard (Little, Brown and Company 2009, p. 148)
  • But it sounds to me like you're in a totally different category. Not garden-variety cantrip stuff.
  • A wilful piece of trickery or mischiefChambers Dictionary, 1998, s.v.
  • References

    cantraip

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)