hoax
something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
to deceive by a hoax; hoodwink.
Origin of hoax
1Other words for hoax
Other words from hoax
- hoaxer, noun
- un·hoaxed, adjective
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How to use hoax in a sentence
He may be hoaxing us like Hepsy didbetter call to him and tell him we havent a jewel or a cent with us, cried Ruth.
Girl Scouts at Dandelion Camp | Lillian Elizabeth RoyIt is only fair to state that the doctor in the following tale was hoaxing the "dragoon."
Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2) | Charles LeverIt is on an iconoclastic eagerness of one kind or another that nearly all hoaxing and practical joking is based.
The Book of This and That | Robert LyndBixiou had the patience to work up the little masterpiece for the sole purpose of hoaxing his superior.
Bureaucracy | Honore de Balzac"I'm really afraid," says Dicky, "that somebody has been hoaxing you this time, Mrs. Blake;" genially.
April's Lady | Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
British Dictionary definitions for hoax
/ (həʊks) /
a deception, esp a practical joke
(tr) to deceive or play a joke on (someone)
Origin of hoax
1Derived forms of hoax
- hoaxer, noun
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