cheat vs trickster

cheat

noun
  • An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception. 

  • A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies. 

  • A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code. 

  • Someone who cheats. 

  • The weed cheatgrass. 

verb
  • To deceive; to fool; to trick. 

  • To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner; to commit adultery, or to engage in sexual or romantic conduct with a person other than one's partner in contravention of the rules of society or agreement in the relationship. 

  • To manage to avoid something even though it seemed inevitable. 

  • To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation. 

trickster

noun
  • A fraud (person who performs a trick for the purpose of unlawful gain). 

  • One who plays tricks or pranks on others. 

  • 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. 

  • One who performs tricks (parts of a magician' act or entertaining difficult physical actions). 

  • An impish or playful person. 

How often have the words cheat and trickster occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )