ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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

  1. 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

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include put-on, dupery, fraudulence, fraud, spoof, sham.

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