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hoaxing

hoaxing

English

Verb

hoaxing

present participle of hoax

Noun

hoaxing ‎(plural hoaxings)

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.