trickster

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noun

1. someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
• Syn:
deceiver, cheat, cheater, beguiler, slicker
• Derivationally related forms:
beguile (for: beguiler), trick, cheat (for: cheater), cheat (for: cheat), deceive (for: deceiver)
• Hypernyms:
wrongdoer, offender
• Hyponyms:
bluffer, four-flusher, swindler, defrauder, chiseller,
chiseler, gouger, scammer, grifter, decoy, steerer,
dodger, fox, slyboots, double-crosser, double-dealer, two-timer,
betrayer, traitor, embezzler, defalcator, peculator, falsifier,
finagler, wangler, forger, counterfeiter, fortune hunter, front man,
front, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman, hypocrite,
dissembler, dissimulator, phony, phoney, pretender, impersonator,
imitator, imposter, impostor, fake, faker, fraud,
sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player, liar,
liar, misleader, mountebank, charlatan, obscurantist,
sandbagger, utterer
2. someone who plays practical jokes on others
• Syn:
prankster, cut-up, tricker, hoaxer, practical joker
• Derivationally related forms:
hoax (for: hoaxer), trick (for: tricker), trick, prank (for: prankster)
• Hypernyms:
troublemaker, trouble maker, troubler, mischief-maker, bad hat
3. a mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people;
sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts
• Hypernyms:
spiritual being, supernatural being

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  deceiver, cheat, cheater, beguiler, slicker, prankster, cut-up, tricker, hoaxer, practical joker