trickster

trick·ster  (trkstr)

n.

1. One that swindles or plays tricks.

2. often Trickster A mischievous or roguish figure in myth or folklore, often an animal, who typically makes up for physical weakness with cunning and subversive humor.

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trickster [ˈtrɪkstə]

n

a person who deceives or plays tricks

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	trickster - someone who plays practical jokes on others cut-up, hoaxer, practical joker, prankster, tricker bad hat, mischief-maker, trouble maker, troublemaker, troubler - someone who deliberately stirs up trouble
	2.	trickster - someone who leads you to believe something that is not true beguiler, cheater, deceiver, slicker, cheat offender, wrongdoer - a person who transgresses moral or civil law bluffer, four-flusher - a person who tries to bluff other people chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, grifter, scammer, swindler, gouger - a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud decoy, steerer - a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot) dodger, slyboots, fox - a shifty deceptive person double-crosser, double-dealer, traitor, two-timer, betrayer - a person who says one thing and does another defalcator, embezzler, peculator - someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use falsifier - someone who falsifies finagler, wangler - a deceiver who uses crafty misleading methods counterfeiter, forger - someone who makes copies illegally fortune hunter - a person who seeks wealth through marriage front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman, figurehead, front - a person used as a cover for some questionable activity dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender - a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives imitator, impersonator - someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another faker, imposter, impostor, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer, pretender, fraud, fake - a person who makes deceitful pretenses liar, prevaricator - a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly misleader - someone who leads astray (often deliberately) charlatan, mountebank - a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes obscurantist - a person who is deliberately vague sandbagger - someone who deceives you about his true nature or intent in order to take advantage of you two-timer - someone who deceives a lover or spouse by carrying on a sexual relationship with somebody else utterer - someone who circulates forged banknotes or counterfeit coins
	3.	trickster - a mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts spiritual being, supernatural being - an incorporeal being believed to have powers to affect the course of human events

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trickster

noun deceiver, fraud, cheat, joker, hoaxer, pretender, hustler (U.S. informal), con man (informal), impostor, fraudster, swindler, practical joker, grifter (slang, chiefly U.S. & Canad.), chiseller (informal) The veteran trickster had made a fortune in his 40 years of fraud.

Translations

trickster [ˈtrɪkstəʳ] N → estafador(a) m/f, embustero/a m/f

trickster [ˈtrɪkstə^r] n → arnaqueur/euse m/f

trickster

n → Schwindler(in) m(f), → Betrüger(in) m(f)

trickster [ˈtrɪkstəʳ] n → imbroglione/a