trickster vs decoy

decoy vs trickster

trickster and decoy both are nouns.

trickster is not a verb while decoy is a verb.

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

As nouns, decoy is a hyponym of trickster; that is, decoy is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than trickster:

trickster: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
decoy: a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot)

Other hyponyms of trickster include bluffer, four-flusher, chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler, steerer, dodger, fox, slyboots, betrayer, double-crosser, double-dealer, traitor, two-timer, defalcator, embezzler, peculator, falsifier, finagler, wangler, counterfeiter, forger, fortune hunter, figurehead, front, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman, dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender, imitator, impersonator, fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer, liar, prevaricator, misleader, charlatan, mountebank, obscurantist, sandbagger, two-timer, utterer.

trickster (noun)	decoy (noun)
someone who plays practical jokes on others	something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot)
a mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts

trickster (verb)	decoy (verb)
	lure or entrap with or as if with a decoy

Difference between trickster and decoy

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