English noun: trickster |
1. | trickster (person) someone who plays practical jokes on others |
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| Synonyms | cut-up, hoaxer, practical joker, prankster, tricker |
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| Broader (hypernym) | bad hat, mischief-maker, trouble maker, troublemaker, troubler |
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2. | trickster (person) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true |
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| Synonyms | beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker |
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| Broader (hypernym) | offender, wrongdoer |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | betrayer, bluffer, charlatan, chiseler, chiseller, counterfeiter, decoy, defalcator, defrauder, dissembler, dissimulator, dodger, double-crosser, double-dealer, embezzler, fake, faker, falsifier, figurehead, finagler, forger, fortune hunter, four-flusher, fox, fraud, front, front man, gouger, grifter, hypocrite, imitator, impersonator, imposter, impostor, liar, misleader, mountebank, nominal head, obscurantist, peculator, phoney, phony, pretender, pretender, prevaricator, pseud, pseudo, role player, sandbagger, scammer, sham, shammer, slyboots, steerer, straw man, strawman, swindler, traitor, two-timer, two-timer, utterer, wangler |
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3. | trickster (person) a mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts |
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| Broader (hypernym) | spiritual being, supernatural being |
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