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hoaxings

hoaxings is the plural of hoaxing.

Meaning of hoaxing

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

Questions about hoaxings

What is hoaxings the plural of?
Hoaxings is the plural of hoaxing.

Words near hoaxings in the dictionary

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

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