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Definition of Trickster
1. Noun. Someone who plays practical jokes on others.
Generic synonyms: Bad Hat, Mischief-maker, Trouble Maker, Troublemaker, Troubler
Derivative terms: Hoax, Prank, Trick, Trick
2. Noun. Someone who leads you to believe something that is not true.
Generic synonyms: Offender, Wrongdoer
Specialized synonyms: Bluffer, Four-flusher, Chiseler, Chiseller, Defrauder, Gouger, Grifter, Scammer, Swindler, Decoy, Steerer, Dodger, Fox, Slyboots, Betrayer, Double-crosser, Double-dealer, Traitor, Two-timer, Defalcator, Embezzler, Peculator, Falsifier, Finagler, Wangler, Counterfeiter, Forger, Fortune Hunter, Figurehead, Front, Front Man, Nominal Head, Straw Man, Strawman, Dissembler, Dissimulator, Hypocrite, Phoney, Phony, Pretender, Imitator, Impersonator, Fake, Faker, Fraud, Imposter, Impostor, Pretender, Pseud, Pseudo, Role Player, Sham, Shammer, Liar, Prevaricator, Misleader, Charlatan, Mountebank, Obscurantist, Sandbagger, Two-timer, Utterer
Derivative terms: Beguile, Cheat, Cheat, Cheat, Cheat, Deceive, Trick, Trick
3. Noun. A mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts.
Definition of Trickster
1. n. One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.
Definition of Trickster
1. Noun. A mythological figure responsible for teaching others through the use of guile and treason. ¹
2. Noun. One who performs a trick. ¹
3. Noun. An impish or playful person. ¹
4. Noun. A fraud (gloss A person who performs a trick for the purpose of unlawful gain) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Trickster
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trickster
Literary usage of Trickster
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Traditional Ojibwa Religion and Its Historical Changes by Christopher Vecsey (1983)
"Of this material, half described him in his role as Culture-Hero, half in his
role as Trickster. As hero he created the new world. Aiding the story-tellers ..."
2. The Mythology of All Races by John Arnott MacCulloch, Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore (1916)
"CHAPTER II Trickster TALES TN Polynesia the tales of the exploits of the hero
Maui JL formed a cycle which was current everywhere in one form or another, ..."
3. The Mythology of the Wichita by George Amos Dorsey (1904)
"He went ahead of them, and when he came to a small hollow he stepped to one side,
and when the Trickster-Spies came along with the boy he joined the party. ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1919)
"WAS ESTHER A LIAR AND Trickster? As we have proceeded in the inquiry, it has
become more and more impossible to maintain that the mysterious acts in the ..."
5. Southern Writers: Biographical and Critical Studies by William Malone Baskervill (1896)
"In one night witch, saint, trickster, fool divine, I think thou'rt jester at the
Court of Heaven. In the third stage of Lanier's poetical development, ..."
6. Representative English Dramas from Dryden to Sheridan by Frederick Tupper, James Waddell Tupper (1914)
"ACT I, Sc. I. Such puny patronage but hurts the cause : Fair virtue scorns our
feeble aid to ask; And moral truth disdains the trickster's mask. ..."
7. The Story of Chartres by Cecil Headlam (1902)
"CHAPTER III Theobald-t he-Trickster and Fulbert the Bishop ' Thiebaut li quenz
de Chartres fu fel e ..."
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