shenanigan
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shenanigan englanniksi
(singular of): a deceitful trick; also, an act of mischief; a prank, a trick; an act of mischievous play, especially by children.
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(quote-journal)–In your answers to correspondence last week is given a definition to which I must except: An Irish word which you write ‘shenanigan’ is defined as being synonymous with our English word ‘humbug,’ thus depriving the natives of ‘the Breast-pin of the Ocean’ of the credit of great shrewdness in the use of the word.|brackets=on
(quote-book)|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons|Charles Scribner’s Sons; Don Mills, Ont.: Inc.|Maxwell Macmillan Canada|page=148|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/stormingstatehou00morr/page/148/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-684-19328-1|passage=A longtime friend of Richards|(quote-gloss) Richards and co-conspirator in many a shenanigan and act of political skulduggery, she (quote-gloss) had decided early in the fall to act on her conviction that something important had gone out of politics.
Dishonest, underhanded, or unscrupulous activities or behaviour; skulduggery, trickery; also, mischievous behaviour or play; jinks.
(quote-journal)|volume=IV|issue=9|page=280|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=7JFRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA280|column=1|oclc=32423418|passage=One of Professor (quote-gloss) Moon's most astonishing "experiments," consisted of holding a watch suspended from a short chain at arm's length, and allowing anyone in the pit to pull pistol and "blaze away" at the word "fire," whereupon the watch would most unconscionably disappear. An individual who had attended several evenings and witnessed the "experiment," suspected, in the classic language of the times, that there was something of "shenanigan" in it.
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To play a deceitful trick on (someone); to swindle, to trick; also, to out an act of mischief on (someone); to prank.
(quote-journal)|volume=IV|issue=II|page=24|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=QfQfAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA24|column=2|oclc=29767677|passage=The habit of "shenaniganing" has become so disgracefully common at Union college that some of the right minded students have passed resolutions condemning the practice in unqualified terms. We are happy to inform the friends of Michigan University that this unmusical word, which, translated means the use of artificial aids, in examinations, is almost wholly unknown here.|footer=(small)
(quote-book),(nb...)|pages=114–115|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/texanranchlifewi00jaqurich/page/115/mode/1up|oclc=2161625|passage=I must have looked sceptical regarding the squirrel, as I informed him that I had not much appetite just then; but he assured me he was not "shenan-neganning" me, and that the dish would prove a delicacy.
(quote-book)(nb...)|page=89|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/gateway00beam/page/89/mode/1up|oclc=56281536|passage=Gosh, I never was so shenaniganned in all my life.
(quote-book) says, "It's too large. It has to be a regular size." I said, "Look, it can't go back, and we have the place reserved. I've already paid for it." I don't know, he shenaniganed something.
To play a deceitful confidence trick; also, to carry out an act of mischief.
(quote-hansard)|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=States Government Publishing Office|United States Government Printing Office|volume=110, part 2|page=2260|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=r3q-oKKwD6EC&pg=PA2260|column=3|issn=0363-7239|oclc=13530005|passage=Then after much shenaniganing around over a period of several weeks (..) we came into the committee room after this "night study" which I understand too place, and some of the Members had the bill we are now considering in a mimeographed form and some of us did not have it.
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