trickster vs strawman

strawman vs trickster

trickster and strawman both are nouns.

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

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

trickster: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
strawman: a person used as a cover for some questionable activity

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, 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)	strawman (noun)
someone who plays practical jokes on others	an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	a weak or sham argument set up to be easily refuted
a mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts	a person used as a cover for some questionable activity

Difference between trickster and strawman

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