There are 26 meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun trick , one of which is labelled obsolete. OED is undergoing a continuous programme of revision to modernize and improve definitions.
This entry has not yet been fully revised. The earliest known use of the noun trick is in the Middle English period — OED's earliest evidence for trick is from around , in the writing of Thomas Hoccleve, poet and clerk. Etymons: French trique. Some consonants can take the function of the vowel in unstressed syllables. View the pronunciation model here. Simple text respell breaks words into syllables, separated by a hyphen. The syllable which carries the primary stress is written in capital letters.
This key covers both British and U. English Simple Text Respell. It is similar in frequency to words like comedy , customary , ongoing , parish , and prolong. More about OED's frequency bands. Historical frequency series are derived from Google Books Ngrams version 2 , a data set based on the Google Books corpus of several million books printed in English between and The overall frequency for a given word is calculated by summing frequencies for the main form of the word, any plural or inflected forms, and any major spelling variations.
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