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trick·ster
(trĭk′stər)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
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trick•ster
(ˈtrɪk stər)n.
1. a deceiver; cheat.
2. a person who plays tricks.
3. a mischievous, knavish figure of myth and folklore, often simultaneously a being with supernatural powers and a culture hero.
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| Noun | 1. |  trickster - someone who plays practical jokes on othersbad 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 truebluffer, 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 double-crosser, double-dealer, traitor, two-timer, betrayer - a person who says one thing and does another falsifier - someone who falsifies 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.
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trickster
nounThe American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Translations
مُحْتال، مُخادِع
-icepodvodník
snyder
bragîarefur
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
trickster
[ˈtrɪkstər] n → arnaqueur/euse m/fCollins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
trickster
n → Schwindler(in) m(f), → Betrüger(in) m(f)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
trickster
[ˈtrɪkstəʳ] n → imbroglione/aCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
trick
(trik) noun1. something which is done, said etc in order to cheat or deceive someone, and sometimes to frighten them or make them appear stupid. The message was just a trick to get her to leave the room.
2. a clever or skilful action (to amuse etc). The magician performed some clever tricks.
adjective intended to deceive or give a certain illusion. trick photography.
ˈtrickery noun the act of deceiving or cheating. She could not stand his trickery.
ˈtrickster noun a cheater.
ˈtricky adjective difficult. a tricky problem/job; a tricky person to deal with.
ˈtrickily adverbˈtrickiness noun
ˈtrick question noun
a question that is likely to mislead a person.
do the trick to do or be what is necessary. I need a piece of paper. This old envelope will do the trick!
play a trick / tricks on to do something which is amusing to oneself because it deceives or frightens (someone else), or makes them appear stupid. He played a trick on her by jumping out from behind a wall as she passed.
a trick of the trade one of the ways of being successful in a job etc. Remembering the customers' names is one of the tricks of the trade.
trick or treat! an expression used by children on Halloween to ``threaten'' people that they will do annoying tricks if they do not get sweets or small presents.
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