trickery vs hanky panky

trickery and hanky panky both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
trickery	Yes	No	No	No
hanky panky	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, trickery and hanky panky are synonyms defined as:

trickery and hanky panky: verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

Other synonyms of trickery include hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness.

trickery (noun)	hanky panky (noun)
the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)	verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way