Hoaxing
noun, verb
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The perpetration of a hoax.
"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."
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of hoax form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
More examples"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."
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