Trickster vs Harlequin - What's the difference?
trickster | harlequin |
A mythological figure responsible for teaching others through the use of guile and treason.
One who performs a trick.
An impish or playful person.
A fraud (person who performs a trick for the purpose of unlawful gain).
a pantomime fool, typically dressed in checkered clothes
* 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
A yellowish-green color.
brightly coloured, especially in a pattern like that of a harlequin clown's clothes
Of a yellowish-green
To remove or conjure away, as if by a harlequin's trick.
* M. Green
To make sport by playing ludicrous tricks.
As nouns the difference between trickster and harlequin
is that trickster is a mythological figure responsible for teaching others through the use of guile and treason while harlequin is a pantomime fool, typically dressed in checkered clothes.As an adjective harlequin is
brightly coloured, especially in a pattern like that of a harlequin clown's clothes.As a verb harlequin is
to remove or conjure away, as if by a harlequin's trick.trickster
English
Alternative forms
* Trickster (especially in the sense of the mythological figure)Noun
(en noun)See also
* Loki * jester * prankster * gadflyharlequin
English
Noun
(en noun)- ... were certainly the worst and dullest company into which an audience was ever introduced; and (which was a secret known to few) were actually intended so to be, in order to contrast the comic part of the entertainment, and to display the tricks of harlequin to the better advantage.
Usage notes
* Because of its origin in the name of an Italian theatrical character, English Harlequin is often used as a proper name.Adjective
(head)Derived terms
* harlequinade * harlequin bat * harlequin beetle * harlequin cabbage bug * harlequin caterpillar * harlequin duck * harlequin moth * harlequin opal * harlequin snakeVerb
(en verb)- And kitten, if the humour hit / Has harlequined away the fit.
