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# trickster

«trickster» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who tricks or cheats people, often to get their…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a trickster, tricksters)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A trickster is a person who tricks or cheats people, often to get their money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trickster/#m1)

2) In myths and folk tales, a trickster is a clever, playful character who plays tricks on others, such as Anansi the spider, Coyote, or Loki. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trickster/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and myths the trickster outwits stronger characters, sometimes kindly, sometimes not. In safety lessons, tricksters may knock on doors or send messages pretending to be someone else (scams), so check before trusting. Related: con artist, cheat, fraudster.

### examples

- Anansi the spider is a famous trickster in African stories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trickster/#x1)
- The trickster sold fake tickets outside the stadium. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trickster/#x2)
- Beware of tricksters who say you have won a prize. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trickster/#x3)
- Loki is the trickster of Norse myths. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trickster/#x4)
- The fox is often the trickster in fables. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trickster/#x5)
- A trickster pretended to be from the bank on the phone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trickster/#x6)

### note

Plural: tricksters. In myths a trickster can be fun or even heroic; in real life a trickster is someone to avoid. Related verb: trick; adjective: tricky.

### In the corpora

- [AI can now make pictures, videos and voices that look and sound real, and tricksters use them to fool kind people.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/16-secrets-scams-telling/0/)
- [In many stories foxes are sly tricksters, because real foxes are clever and adaptable, eat almost anything and learn quickly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/215-foxes-and-squirrels/7/)
- [A trick with food or drink can make someone ill, because the trickster may not know about allergies or medical needs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/29/)
- [Tricksters use stories that pull at a kind child's heart.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/446-a-strangers-story/5/)
- [Real people are happy to wait for your grown-up; tricksters get annoyed and leave.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/446-a-strangers-story/29/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «trickster» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trickster/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.