Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. One that swindles or plays tricks.
- n. A mischievous or roguish figure in myth or folklore, often an animal, who typically makes up for physical weakness with cunning and subversive humor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A mythological figure responsible for teaching others through the use of guile and treason.
- n. One who performs a trick.
- n. An impish or playful person.
- n. A fraud (person who performs a trick for the purpose of unlawful gain).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who practises tricks; a deceiver; a cheat.
- To play tricks.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. someone who plays practical jokes on others
- n. someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
- n. a mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts
Etymologies
Examples
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But the trickster is willing to become the prince of thieves in order to get power among the gods.
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The deadly trickster is for rogues and maybe rangers, basically some luck powers.
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Lévi-Strauss’s argument hinges on two facts about the Native American trickster: (1) the trickster has a contradictory and unpredictable personality; (2) the trickster is almost always a raven or a coyote.
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Stone is well known as a trickster, and for his ability to spin magic out of nothing, even an ordinary phone call.
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The trickster was a pretended monk who dwelt there before me and at whose death I was present.
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In mythology, and in the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a god, goddess, spirit, man, woman, or anthropomorphic animal who plays tricks or otherwise disobeys normal rules and conventional behavior.
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Personally I'm okay with the artist as "trickster," but in this case the trickster-aspect manifests itself more in the area of the passive aggressive.
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Rushdie's Nobu is neither present nor dead; instead he is the "trickster," symbolizing a learning lesson Rushdie wanted to express.
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To me this IS a reboot, what makes it interesting is having a "trickster" figure like Jack, and the lovable bad guy Barbossa, and hopefully the ever-loyal sidekick Gibbs, entering a fresh new story.
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Loki, of course, is the name of the "trickster" of the gods in the Skaldic pantheon and one of the original trolls.
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