hoaxing

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Verb

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hoaxing

  1. present participle and gerund of hoax

Noun

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hoaxing (plural hoaxings)

  1. The perpetration of a hoax.
    • 1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great:
      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.