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hoaxing

hoaxing is the present participle and gerund of hoax.

Meaning of hoax

Verb

hoax (third-person singular simple present hoaxes, present participle hoaxing, simple past and past participle hoaxed)

  1. (transitive) To deceive (someone) by making them believe something that has been maliciously or mischievously fabricated.

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Noun

hoaxing (plural hoaxings)

  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.1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great

Forms of hoaxing

pluralhoaxings

Questions about hoaxing

What does hoaxing mean?
Hoaxing means the perpetration of a hoax.
What is hoaxing the present participle and gerund of?
Hoaxing is the present participle and gerund of hoax.
What part of speech is hoaxing?
Hoaxing is a noun.
What is the plural of hoaxing?
The plural of hoaxing is hoaxings.

Words near hoaxing in the dictionary

  1. hoaxers
  2. hoaxes
  3. hoaxical
  4. hoaxier
  5. hoaxiest
  6. hoaxing
  7. hoaxings
  8. hoaxlike
  9. Hoaxocaust
  10. hoaxster
  11. hoaxsters

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