chicanery
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chicanery (variabile e invariabile) (pl.: chicaneries)
- imbroglio, sotterfugio
- cavillo legale
IPA: /ʃɪˈkeɪn(ə)ɹi/ Ascolta la pronuncia :
dal francese chicanerie, da chicaner, prestito linguistico dal tedesco schicken, dal proto-germanico *skikkijaną (cfr. tedesco schicken)
- WordReference.com, Versione on-line Inglese-Italiano
- Il Sansoni, Inglese edizione on-line da "www.corriere.it"
- Dictionary.com, lemma chicanery
- Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Dictionary versione on-line
- Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary