trickster vs gouger

gouger vs trickster

trickster and gouger both are nouns.

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

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

trickster: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
gouger: a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud

Other hyponyms of trickster include bluffer, four-flusher, chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, grifter, scammer, swindler, decoy, 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)	gouger (noun)
someone who plays practical jokes on others	a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	an attacker who gouges out the antagonist's eye
a mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts

Difference between trickster and gouger

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