trickster vs phony

phony vs trickster

trickster and phony both are nouns.

trickster is not an adjective while phony is an adjective.

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

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

trickster: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
phony: a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives

Other hyponyms of trickster include bluffer, four-flusher, chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, 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, 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)	phony (noun)
someone who plays practical jokes on others	a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives
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

trickster (adjective)	phony (adjective)
	fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

Difference between trickster and phony

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