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shenanigans

shenanigans

English

Noun

shenanigans pl ‎(plural only)

Mischievous play, especially by children.
Billy and Tom are playing noisily upstairs again. They're up to their usual shenanigans.
Deceitful trick(s); trickery, games.

You should learn to spot their shenanigans and avoid being fooled.

The advertisement said it would cost $50, but they charged me $75 at the register. I declare shenanigans.

Derived terms

shenaniganry

Translations

trickery, games; skulduggery

Afrikaans: skelmstreke
Armenian: դաղալություն ‎(dałalutʿyun)
Catalan: martingala (ca) f, tripijoc m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 騙局 (zh), 骗局 (zh) ‎(piànjú), 惡作劇 (zh), 恶作剧 (zh) ‎(èzuòjù), 詭計 (zh), 诡计 (zh) ‎(guǐjì), 鬼把戲 (zh), 鬼把戏 (zh) ‎(guǐbǎxì)
Dutch: bedrog (nl), valsspelerij
Finnish: metkut pl
French: (children's games) chahut (fr) m, tricherie (fr) f
Galician: andrómena (gl) f, andrómenas (gl) f pl, estafa f

German: Schummelei f, Pfuscherei f, Streiche (de) f
Japanese: 悪ふざけ ‎(わるふざけ, warufuzake)
Portuguese: falcatrua (pt) f
Russian: махина́ции (ru) f pl ‎(maxinácii), проде́лки (ru) f pl ‎(prodélki), надува́тельство (ru) n ‎(naduvátelʹstvo), жу́льничество (ru) n ‎(žúlʹničestvo), шу́лерство (ru) n ‎(šúlerstvo)
Serbo-Croatian: смицалице f pl ‎(smicalice)
Spanish: artimaña (es), travesuras f pl
Swedish: fiffel (sv), fuffens (sv)

References

shenanigans on Wikipedia.Wikipedia