different between trickster vs trepan

English

Etymology

From trick +? -ster.

Noun

trickster (plural tricksters)

1. (mythology, literature) Any of numerous figures featuring in various mythologies and folk traditions, who use guile and secret knowledge to challenge authority and play tricks and pranks on others; any similar figure in literature.
   • 1991, Alan R. Velie (compiler and editor), American Indian Literature: An Anthology, Revised edition, page 44,

     The trickster is one of the oldest and most widespread of mythological and literary figures. […] As the name implies, the trickster is, on one level—probably the most important—an amoral practical joker who wanders about playing pranks on unsuspecting victims […] With all the fluctuations, certain things about the trickster are predictable: he is always a wanderer, always hungry, and usually oversexed.

     Tricksters abound in folktales […] .
2. One who plays tricks or pranks on others.
3. One who performs tricks (parts of a magician' act or entertaining difficult physical actions).
4. An impish or playful person.
5. A fraud (person who performs a trick for the purpose of unlawful gain).

Synonyms

• (one who plays tricks on others): prankster, tricker
• (one who performs tricks): tricker

Related terms

• trick

Translations

See also

• gadfly
• jester
• jokester
• practical joker
• prankster
• List of fictional tricksters on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???pæn/
• Rhymes: -æn
• Hyphenation: tre?pan

Etymology 1

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French trepan, from Latin trepanum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (trúpanon, “auger, borer”). Doublet of trephine.

Noun

trepan (plural trepans)

1. A tool used to bore through rock when sinking shafts.
2. (medicine) A surgical instrument used to remove a circular section of bone from the skull; a trephine.

Translations

Verb

trepan (third-person singular simple present trepans, present participle trepanning or trepaning, simple past and past participle trepanned or trepaned)

1. (transitive, manufacturing, mining) To create a large hole by making a narrow groove outlining the shape of the hole and then removing the plug of material remaining by less expensive means.
2. (medicine) To use a trepan; to trephine.

Translations

Etymology 2

Possibly from Old English treppan (“to trap”).

Noun

trepan (plural trepans)

1. (archaic) A trickster.
2. (archaic) A snare; a trapan.

   • Snares and trepans that common life lays in its way.

Translations

Verb

trepan (third-person singular simple present trepans, present participle trepanning, simple past and past participle trepanned)

1. (archaic) To ensnare; to seduce, to trick.
   • 1798 Charlotte Turner Smith: The Young Philosopher. Vol.4, Chapter 9. ...a postchaise, into which he had so infamously trepanned me...

Translations

Anagrams

• -pteran, Parten, arpent, enrapt, entrap, panter, parent

Spanish

Verb

trepan

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present indicative form of trepar.
2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present indicative form of trepar.