trickster vs shammer

shammer vs trickster

trickster and shammer both are nouns.

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

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

trickster: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
shammer: a person who makes deceitful pretenses

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, phony, pretender, imitator, impersonator, fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, liar, prevaricator, misleader, charlatan, mountebank, obscurantist, sandbagger, two-timer, utterer.

trickster (noun)	shammer (noun)
someone who plays practical jokes on others	a person who makes deceitful pretenses
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity
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 shammer

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