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Someone who plays practical jokes on others
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trickster
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1711, from trick (n.) + -ster .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In mythology , and in the study of folklore and religion , a trickster is a character in a story ( god , goddess , spirit , man , woman , or anthropomorphisation ), which exhibits a great degree of intellect or secret knowledge, and uses it to play tricks ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN confidence ▪ He can break up the rhythm with the deceptive powers of a confidence trickster and made something happen from seemingly stagnant positions. ▪ Maybe he was a confidence trickster . ▪ Apparently his mum died ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trickster \Trick"ster\, n. One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.
Usage examples of trickster.
The Trickster is another archetype standing at the boundaries between consciousness and the unconscious.
Tee Bobby had skated on the edge of the system, shining people on, getting by on rebop and charm and convincing others he was more trickster than miscreant.
Hmishi and Lling gave Adar a polite bow, but followed Llesho from the room without a word or question, which seemed to please the trickster god immensely.
Aware that crime and disease would both be on the increase, Pompey devoted some of his splendid organizational talents to diminishing crime and disease by hiring ex-gladiators to police the alleys and byways of the city, by making the College of Lictors keep an eye on the shysters and tricksters who frequented the Forum Romanum and other major marketplaces, by enlarging the swimming holes of the Trigarium, and plastering vacant walls with warning notices about good drinking water, urinating and defaecating anywhere but in the public latrines, clean hands and bad food.
A few hermetics had made the error of trying to force their way through the bazaar rather than finding a route around it, and now their palanquins were mired, harried by traders and tricksters.
Geezl had become the victim of a skilled trickster by the name of Lari Afriq.
Trickster decided to pay his respects to the Menominee in Milwaukee and make sure they made room for him in their part of the parade.
The medicine woman of the Menominee was an elder in her seventies who invited Trickster into her house immediately, promptly cuffed the little rogue on the back of the neck, and offered him tobacco.
Gods knows the Arab merchants are tricksters and swindlers, but the Armeniyans are so much shiftier that only a fellow Armeniyan dares deal with them.
We know them for what they are,--ruffians in politics, ruffians in finance, ruffians in law, ruffians in trade, bribers, swindlers, and tricksters.
Rains, and the knights are bored out of their minds from inaction and drunk or wenching most of the time, and there is no one left to serve me but cravens and fools and traitorous tricksters plotting to take my kingdom once the Ruwendian demon-trulls have finished me off!
Orientals are such confidence tricksters that any Roman worth his salt sews his purse shut and straps it into his left armpit the moment he encounters them.
The fakirs worked the community as shell-game tricksters work a county fair, departing with bursting pocket-books, passing on the word to the next in line, assured that the place was not worked out, knowing well that there was enough for all.
He was a trickster that big league hitters were certain to figure out.
He had legislated to protect them from the depredations of greedy wives, confidence tricksters and gobbling landowners by forbidding them to sell their portions for twenty years.