trickster
IPA: trˈɪkstɝ
noun
- (mythology, literature) Any of numerous figures featuring in various mythologies and folk traditions, who use guile and secret knowledge to challenge authority and play tricks and pranks on others; any similar figure in literature.
- One who plays tricks or pranks on others.
- One who performs tricks (parts of a magician' act or entertaining difficult physical actions).
- An impish or playful person.
- A fraud (person who performs a trick for the purpose of unlawful gain).
verb
- (intransitive) To engage in the antics of a trickster; to play tricks.
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Examples of "trickster" in Sentences
- Foxy is a cheater and trickster.
- I'm the fixer not the trickster.
- Satan is most definitely a trickster.
- A charlatan is a trickster or con artist.
- He is a notorious bachelor and trickster.
- The duke was not a genius but a trickster.
- This trickster is the ringleader of the pack.
- Although a trickster, it is helpful to people.
- He is an archetypal representation of the trickster.
- His life avocation, however, was that of a confidence trickster.
- The deadly trickster is for rogues and maybe rangers, basically some luck powers.
- The trickster was a pretended monk who dwelt there before me and at whose death I was present.
- But the trickster is willing to become the prince of thieves in order to get power among the gods.
- Stone is well known as a trickster, and for his ability to spin magic out of nothing, even an ordinary phone call.
- Rushdie's Nobu is neither present nor dead; instead he is the "trickster," symbolizing a learning lesson Rushdie wanted to express.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.