prestidigitation

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

prestidigitations

1.
(countable, uncountable)A performance of or skill in performing magic or conjuring tricks with the hands.
My favorite prestidigitation was when he pulled the live dove out of that tiny scarf.
Đồng nghĩa: sleight of hand, legerdemain
2.
(broadly, countable, uncountable)(by extension) A show of skill or deceitful cleverness.
His writing was peppered with verbal tricks and prestidigitation.
Đồng nghĩa: sleight of hand, legerdemain, deception, deceit, dupery, fiddle, fetch, hocus-pocus, jugglery, legerdemain, list, mislead, prestidigitation, Punic faith, rinky-dink, ruse, sleight of hand, subterfuge, swack, trickery

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Đồng nghĩa

sleight of handlegerdemaindeception deceit dupery fiddlefetchhocus-pocusjugglerylist misleadPunic faithrinky-dinkruse subterfuge swack trickery

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prestidigitator

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Nguồn gốc từ

From French prestidigitation, from preste + digitus + -ation. The word has a different origin from prestige, even though this in the past has meant “delusion, illusion, trick”.