mountebank vs trickster

mountebank and trickster both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mountebank	Yes	No	No	No
trickster	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, trickster is a hypernym of mountebank; that is, trickster is a word with a broader meaning than mountebank:

mountebank: a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes
trickster: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

Other hypernyms of mountebank include beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker.

mountebank (noun)	trickster (noun)
a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes	someone who plays practical jokes on others
	someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
	a mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts