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What is "trickster" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does trickster mean in English? Meaning of trickster definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "trickster" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "trickster": someone who plays practical jokes on others

Noun

  • Meaning: someone who plays practical jokes on others
  • Synonyms: cut-up hoaxer practical joker prankster tricker trickster
  • Hypernyms: bad hat mischief-maker trouble maker troublemaker troubler

    • Meaning of "trickster": someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

    Noun

  • Meaning: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
  • Synonyms: beguiler cheat cheater deceiver slicker trickster
  • Hyponyms: 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 prevaricator pseud pseudo role player sandbagger scammer sham shammer slyboots steerer straw man strawman swindler traitor two-timer utterer wangler
  • Hypernyms: offender wrongdoer

    • Meaning of "trickster": a mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts

    Noun

  • Meaning: a mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts
  • Synonyms: trickster
  • Hypernyms: spiritual being supernatural being

    • Synonyms:

    con artist, cheat, deceiver, swindler, charlatan, con man, confidence man, imposter, conniver,

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    trickster in English: trickster
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