trickster
/trˈɪkstɝ/
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Definitions
Noun
someone who plays practical jokes on others
Noun
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
Noun
a mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts
Synonyms
More General Terms
bad hat
mischief-maker
offender
spiritual being
supernatural being
trouble maker
troublemaker
troubler
wrongdoer
More Specific Terms
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