Meaning

noun someone who plays practical jokes on others

noun someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

noun a mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts

originEtymology tree English trick Proto-West Germanic *-astrijā Old English -estre Middle English -estere English -ster English trickster From trick + -ster.

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