Electrickery

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Electricity, or the technological advances that it underpins. humorous, uncountable

    "Yez can't expect, soshallism to work hand in hand with flyin' machines, electrickery, an' all th' other various an' many infernal inventions what have come about in this age of nervous' an' high-tenshioned fackadoodalums."

Example

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"Yez can't expect, soshallism to work hand in hand with flyin' machines, electrickery, an' all th' other various an' many infernal inventions what have come about in this age of nervous' an' high-tenshioned fackadoodalums."

Etymology

Blend of electricity + trickery.

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