Definitions for trickster

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trickster trick·ster

Spelling: [trik-ster]

IPA: /ˈtrɪk stər/

Trickster is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 275 anagrams from letters in trickster (ceikrrstt).

Definitions for trickster

noun

1. a deceiver; cheat; fraud.
2. a person who plays tricks.
3. a supernatural figure appearing in various guises and typically engaging in mischievous activities, important in the folklore and mythology of many primitive peoples and usually conceived as a culture hero.

Origin of trickster

First recorded in 1705-15; trick + -ster

Examples for trickster

Could any trickster perform in the dark with such precision and gentleness?

"A trick for the trickster," said L'Estrange to the Austrian prince.

Maurizio Cattelan: All will present the complete works of this Italian trickster at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

What is there that he cannot, that he will not do, the trickster, the magician!

But as with everything Sugimotesque, I think his trickster self is at work.

It was a wily trap he had set me, worthy only of a trickster.

Elvira has recently been deceived by Giovanni—and decides to seek vengeance by publicly outing him as the trickster whom he is.

With that I walked out of the cabin, trickster Tim following at my heels.

They even would have trickster Tim to apologise and shake me by the hand.

I took him for a trickster, who wanted to get me ashore and jail me.