trickster vs steerer

steerer vs trickster

trickster and steerer both are nouns.

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

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

trickster: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
steerer: 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, decoy, 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)	steerer (noun)
someone who plays practical jokes on others	a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot)
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	the person who steers a ship
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 steerer

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