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trickster

/trik-ster/US // ˈtrɪk stər //UK // (ˈtrɪkstə) //

骗子,捣蛋鬼,诡计多端,诡计多端的人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a deceiver; cheat; fraud.
    • : a person who plays tricks.
    • : 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.

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Examples

  • There’s even a family-friendly matinee for budding tricksters.

  • Similarly, Loki became an instant fan favorite villain not only because of Tom Hiddleston’s over-the-top Shakespearean delivery of the trickster god’s lines but because he had a heart.

  • The marvel-filled narrative — 100 chapters in the original — derives from popular tales and dramas about a shape-changing trickster and proto-superhero who happens to be a talking monkey.

  • Relative innocents who’ve come to seek their fortunes in the gold fields, Anna and Emery are soon waylaid by the savvy tricksters who flourish in such communities.

  • Online tricksters have already found ways to wreak havoc with the site’s own tools.

  • His youngest son, Orange Scott, was a rough-and-tumble trickster and a terrible tease.

  • Either it was unintentional or she is the smoothest trickster ever, because she never reacts to it.

  • Mind-Blowing Bicycle Magic Trickster Tim Knoll is definitely the new cool kid in town.

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

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

  • These men charged him with being a political trickster, and won most of his followers away from him.

  • His lip curled contemptuously at sports that required a mere trickster's turn of the wrist or an animal's sense of direction.

  • Yes—and yet you accuse me of being a trickster, a scoundrel, and a fool, without knowing my works?

  • The expert trickster of large luck and large fortune makes his way to Monte Carlo, the gambling Mecca of the world.

  • He was, to undisciplined or envious opponents, a "little magician," a trickster.