Hoaxer

noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who perpetrates hoaxes.
  2. 2
    someone who plays practical jokes on others wordnet

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Etymology

From hoax + -er.

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