OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 12664

trickster

/ˈtɹɪkstɚ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
trasgo
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 with their acts of trickery; any similar figure in literature.
1991, Alan R. Velie (compiler and editor), American Indian Literature: An Anthology, Revised edition, page 44, The trickster is one of the oldest and most widespread of mythologica…
And let us begin with those sympathetic elements, the tricksters who obtain the lovers and the land, always at the expense of fools and knaves, sometimes at the expense of other tr…
engañabobos
An impish or playful person.
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