Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of hoax
nounhoaxing (plural hoaxings)
plural hoaxings
- 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
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