Category: Word of the Day
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WOtD: Legerdemain
The word is “Legerdemain”. It is a noun. OED definitions include: Sleight of hand; the performance of tricks which by nimble action deceive the eye; jugglery; conjuring tricks. Trickery, deception, hocus-pocus. a) transf. and fig. Trickery, deception, hocus-pocus. b) An instance of this; a trick, a juggle. Obs. A sleight-of-hand performer, a conjurer. Obs. rare attrib. or…