OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 14619

knack

/næk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
aptitud • pegarle a
A readiness in performance; aptness at doing something.
The sophist runs for cover to the darkness of what is not and attaches himself to it by some knack of his;
These men had some uncanny knack of knowing when the steel was right, and like many such things, it just could not be put into a textbook on the subject.
chisme
A petty contrivance; a toy.
truco
Something performed, or to be done, requiring aptness and dexterity.
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