Associations to the word «Trickster»

Wiktionary

TRICKSTER, noun. A mythological figure responsible for teaching others through the use of guile and treason.
TRICKSTER, noun. One who performs a trick.
TRICKSTER, noun. An impish or playful person.
TRICKSTER, noun. A fraud (person who performs a trick for the purpose of unlawful gain).

Dictionary definition

TRICKSTER, noun. Someone who plays practical jokes on others.
TRICKSTER, noun. Someone who leads you to believe something that is not true.
TRICKSTER, noun. A mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope