electrickery

English

Etymology

Blend of electricity +‎ trickery

Noun

electrickery (uncountable)

1. (humorous) Electricity, or the technological advances that it underpins.
   • 1910 May 28, The Newcastle Herald and Toodyay District Chronicle, WA, page 7, column 1:

     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.

   • 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 8:

     "Why did we return to this time, Touchwood?" Catweazle asked the toad. "Why did we leave the world of electrickery?"