Hoaxing
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Hoaxing is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of hoax.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of hoax.
More Meanings
- The perpetration of a hoax.
Example Sentences
What Gundling thought to himself, amid these pranks and hoaxings, we do not know. The poor soul was not born a fool; though he had become one, by college-learning, vanity, strong-drink, and the world's perversity and his own.
Word Forms
- hoaxings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include put-on, dupery, fraudulence, fraud, spoof, sham.
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