Hoax

,

Noun.

[Prob. contr. fr.

hocus

, in

hocus-pocus

.]

A deception for mockery or mischief; a deceptive trick or story; a practical joke.

Macaulay.

Hoax

,

Verb.

T.

[

imp. & p. p.

Hoaxed

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Hoaxing

.]

To deceive by a story or a trick, for sport or mischief; to impose upon sportively.

Lamb.

Hoax

HOAX

,

Noun.

Something done for deception or mockery; a trick played off in sport.

HOAX

,

Verb.

T.

To deceive; to play a trick upon for sport, or without malice. [A colloquial word, but not elegant.]

hoax

English

Verb

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

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

Derived terms

hoaxer
hoaxster (rare)

Translations

to deceive with a hoax

Chinese:
Mandarin: 欺騙 (zh), 欺骗 (zh) ‎(qīpiàn), 作弄 (zh) ‎(zuònòng), 戲弄 (zh), 戏弄 (zh) ‎(xìnòng)
Czech: podvést, napálit (cs)
Finnish: huijata (fi)
French: duper (fr), berner (fr)
German: anführen (de), hereinlegen

Hebrew: מתח ‎(matákh)
Ido: dup-igo
Italian: frodare (it)
Japanese: ペテンに掛ける ‎(peten-ni kakeru)
Maori: māminga, tinihanga
Portuguese: fraudar (pt)
Russian: разы́грывать (ru) impf ‎(razýgryvatʹ), разыгра́ть (ru) pf ‎(razygrátʹ)

Noun

hoax ‎(plural hoaxes)

Anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick.

Synonyms

(deliberately false story or report): canard

Derived terms

(deliberately false story or report): hoaxical, Hoaxocaust

Translations

anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick

Bulgarian: измислица (bg) f ‎(izmislica)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 騙局 (zh), 骗局 (zh) ‎(piànjú), 惡作劇 (zh), 恶作剧 (zh) ‎(èzuòjù)
Czech: podvod m, mystifikace f, žert (cs) m, kachna (cs) f
Finnish: huijaus (fi)
French: canular (fr) m, mystification (fr) f, intox (fr) f
German: Streich (de) m, Trick (de) m, Schabernack (de) m
Greek: φάρσα (el) ‎(fársa)
Hungarian: átverés (hu)
Irish: dallamullóg m
Italian: frode (it)
Japanese: ペテン ‎(peten), 悪戯 ‎(いたずら, itazura), でっち上げ ‎(decchiage)

Maori: māminga, tinihanga
Norwegian: puss (no) n, bedrag (no) n
Polish: mistyfikacja (pl) f, (dated) szalbierstwo n
Portuguese: fraude (pt) m, embuste (pt) m, embustice f, logro (pt) m
Romanian: cioara vopsita
Russian: ро́зыгрыш (ru) m ‎(rózygryš), трюк (ru) m ‎(trjuk), мистифика́ция (ru) m ‎(mistifikácija), обма́н (ru) m ‎(obmán)
Spanish: bulo (es) m, filfa f
Swedish: bluff (sv) c
Tagalog: talimangmang
Welsh: cast (cy) m

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