Hoax

Definition: Hoax

Hoax

Noun

1. Something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage.

Verb

1. Subject to a palyful hoax or joke.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hoax" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references)

Literature

Publishing & Graphic Arts

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Synonyms: Hoax

Deception

Verb: deceive, take in; defraud, cheat, jockey, do, cozen, diddle, nab, chouse, play one false, bilk, cully, jilt, bite, pluck, swindle, victimize; abuse; mystify; blind one's eyes; blindfold, hoodwink; throw dust into the eyes; dupe, gull, hoax, fool, befool, bamboozle, flimflam, hornswoggle; trick.

Trick, cheat, wile, blind, feint, plant, bubble, fetch, catch, chicane, juggle, reach, hocus, bite; card sharping, stacked deck, loaded dice, quick shuffle, double dealing, dealing seconds, dealing from the bottom of the deck; artful dodge, swindle; tricks upon travelers; stratagem; (artifice); confidence trick, fake, hoax; theft; ballot-box stuffing barney, brace game, bunko game, drop game, gum game, panel game; shell game, thimblerig; skin game.

Crosswords: Hoax

Because if any human being were going to perpetrate such a fantastic hoax, it would've been me (Superman; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster)

To satisfy the hoax. (THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING; performing artist: King Crimson)

The Hoax (1972)

Stage Hoax (1952)

The Hoax House (1916)

A Hospital Hoax (1912)

The Great Bank Hoax (1977)

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Books

• The Alternative Medicine Hoax (reference)

• The Hoax of the Twentieth Century the Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry (reference)

• Turn Me On, Dead Man: The Complete Story of the Paul McCartney Death Hoax (Rock & Roll Remembrances, No 12) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "hoax": hoax virus ♦ piltdown hoax ♦ play a hoax on smb.. Additional references.

Ending with "hoax": bomb-hoax.

Afrikaans

beetneem (captivate, capture, catch, clutch, fool, grapple, mystify, take, take in, trick), beethê (fool, have, have got hold of, mystify, trick), bedot (fool, mystify, trick). (various references)

Albanian

vë në lojë (guy, hocus, pull smb.'s leg, tease), tallem (flout, fool about, fool around, jape, jeer, joke, laugh at, make fun of, make smb. laugh, make sport of, mock, quiz, scoff), shaka (badinage, crack, facetiae, gag, jape, jest, jocosity, jocularity, joke, lark, persiflage, play, pleasantry, prank, quiz, spoof, trick, waggery), rreng (fraud, frolic, hokey-pokey, kicker, practical joke, prank, rig, trick), i punoj një rreng (hocus). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نكتة (anecdote, crack, gag, jest, joke, pleasantries, rib, witticism), ‏قدم نكته, ‏خدعة (artifice, deception, dodge, fetch, fraud, gag, ploy, ruse, sleight, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, wile), ‏خدع (bamboozle, beguile, betray, bilk, bitch, bite, blind, bluff, brown, bubble, camouflage, catch, cheat, chisel, con, crook, deceive, deception, decoy, defraud, delude, diddle, do, dupe, entrap, fall for, feint, fiddle, fob, fool, fox, get round, give the lie to, gull, gyp, hocus pocus, humbug, illusory, impose, intrigue, jape, job, leg pull, lure, mislead, mock, mystify, nick, overreach, pitch, play a trick, pose, prank, pull a fast one, pull his leg, ream, rook, sell, settle his hash, skin, skunk, slang, stick, string along, swank, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, victimize, wile). (various references)

Bulgarian 

шега (chaff, fun, game, jape, jest, jig, joke, lark, pleasantry, prank, quiz, raillery, rib, sport, tease, trick, waggery), номер (event, feature, fetch, item, jig, number, performance, registration number, size, waggery), погаждам номер на, измама (bunco, bunko, cheat, chouse, cozenage, cross, deceit, deception, delusion, do, double cross, double dealing, doubling, dupery, falsity, fiddle, flam, foul play, frame up, fraud, gaff, gag, gouge, guile, gyp, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, have on, hocus pocus, humbug, imposition, imposture, indirection, jiggery pokery, jockeying, jugglery, kid, lemon, overreach, plant, pretence, put on, rig, rip off, roguery, sell, sellout, sham, shuffle, simulacrum, skin game, spoof, swindle, take in, thimblerig, trickery, twist), измислица (concoction, excogitation, fable, fabrication, fairy tale, fake, fib, fiction, figment, flam, invention, make believe, make up, myth, nonentity, tale, tall story, taradiddle), излъгвам (delude, have, jockey, pull a fast one). (various references)

Chinese 

骗局. (various references)

Czech

smyšlenka (cock and bull story, fable, figment, invention), podfuk (con, fiddle, wangle), obalamutit koho, napálit (bamboozle, beat, cheat, con, dupe, fool, slog, take in), kanadský žertík (rag), bouda (booth, cabin, hut, hutch, stall). (various references)

Dutch

beetnemen (captivate, capture, catch, clutch, fool, grapple, mystify, take in, trick), beduvelen (fool, mystify, trick), bedotten (bilk, cheat, fool, mystify, take in, trick). (various references)

Esperanto

mistifiki (fool, mystify, trick). (various references)

Farsi 

گول زدن (Bamboozle, Beguile, Cajole, Cheat, Con, Deceive, Defraud, Doodle, Dupe, Entrap, Fool, Gaff, Gouge, Gull, Gum, Gyp, Hustle, Jockey, Outwit, Rogue, Swindle, Wheedle), شوخی فریب امیز (Hob, Humbug), دست انداختن (Banter, Fool, Game, Gibe, Kid, Lark, Ridicule, Spoof). (various references)

Finnish

ankka (canard, drake, duck, false report). (various references)

French

canular. (various references)

German

ente (bed urinal, canard, duck, false report). (various references)

Greek 

κοροϊδία (jeer, jiggery pokery, kidding, mockery, raillery, spoof), γελώ (cackle, laugh), αστεϊσμόσ (badinage, banter, jest, joke, kidding, rally, waggery), αστειευόμενοσ (josher), αστείο (antics, chaff, fun, gag, jape, jest, joke, pleasantry, sport), απάτη (beguilement, bilk, cheat, circumvention, con, deceit, deception, delusion, fake, fallacy, fraud, gammon, guile, gyp, humbug, humbuggery, imposition, imposture, jiggery pokery, scam, sham, spoof, swindle, swindling, trick, trickery), απατώ (bamboozle, beguile, bilk, bluff, cheat, chisel, circumvent, con, deceive, dupe, fool, gouge, gyp, hoodwink, humbug, impose, jockey, juggle, rook, sham, shave, shortchange, spoof, swindle, trick). (various references)

Hebrew 

מעש�" קו� �"ס (jape, lark, practical joke, prank), תעלול (antic, caper, caprice, machination, mischief, practical joke, prank, quip, rag, trick, whim). (various references)

Hungarian

megtévesztés (deceit, deception, delusion, demonstration, misrepresentation, mockery, mystification), beugratás (con game, confidence game, confidence trick, have on, take in). (various references)

Indonesian

olok-olok (badinage, quip, quirk, raillery), memperdayakan (see: mendaya). (various references)

Italian

truffa (cheat, do, fiddle, fraud, racket, swindle, swindling), scherzo, falso allarme, mistificare (bamboozle, fool, mystify), inganno (catch, cheat, craft, deceit, deception, dupery, flam, gammon, guile, humbug, imposition, imposture, swindle, swindling, trick, trickery, wile), ingannare (abuse, bamboozle, be mistaken, be wrong, beguile, bluff, cheat, cod, deceive, delude, do, dupe, fool, Fox, gull, hocus, hoodwink, impose, kid, lie, mislead, stall, swindle, trick, trickery, victimise, victimize), frottola (fib, flam), fandonia (humbug, story), canard (canard), beffa (banter, cheat, derisiveness, gibe, jeer, jest, jibe, joke, lark, mock, mockery, scoff, spoof). (various references)

Korean 

� 조 (Fabricating). (various references)

Manx

jannoo cluic, cluic (prank, ruse, stunt, subterfuge, trick). (various references)

Norwegian

spøk (gag, jest, joke), puss. (various references)

Pig Latin

oaxhay.(various references)

Portuguese

mistificar (bamboozle, flimflam, green, gull, hocus, hocus-pocus, humbug, mystify, spoof, trick, wangle). (various references)

Romanian

pãcãli (cheat, deceive, diddle, do, dupe, fool, gammon, get, gull, hocus, hornswoggle, kid, let in, lime, nobble, outflank, outsmart, outwit, sell, Spruce, stuff, trick, trump, twist), pãcãlealã (dupery, farce, joke, leg pull, sell), mistifica (falsify, mystify), festã (farce, gammon, practical joke, prank, shuffle), farsã (farce, humbug, interlude, joke, leg pull, low comedy, Masquerade, trick), bluf (bluff), bazaconie (eccentricity, extravagance, Folly, singularity), înşelãciune (bluff, cheat, deceit, deception, fake, flim-flam, foul play, frame up, fraud, guile, humbug, illusion, intake). (various references)

Russian 

розыгрыш (leg-pull, playoff, practical joke), мистифицировать мистификация, мистификация (cantrip, leg pull, mystification, quiz), подшучивать (banter, chaff, joke, jolly, make game of, monkey, poke fun, quiz, rag, rally, razz). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

podvaliti (cheat, gouge, gull, swindle, welch, welsh), podvala (fraud, gouge, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, hokum, humbug, imposture, jew's pitch, jiggery pokery, plant, swindle), obmana (bluff, bubble, chicanery, circumvention, cozenage, deceit, deception, delusion, fraud, jugglery). (various references)

Spanish

engañar (bamboozle, be deceptive, befool, beguile, belie, betray, bilk, bite, bluff, buffalo, cheat, cheat on, circumvent, con, cozen, deceive, delude, do a room, double cross, dupe, fob, fool, hocus, hoodwink, kill, mislead, mystify, outsmart, pull a fast one, put across, put off, put over, put upon, spoof, stay, swindle, take in, trick, while away). (various references)

Swedish

spratt (Dido, lark, prank, spoof, trick), lura (bamboozle, beat, befool, beguile, cheat, chicane, chisel, chouse, clip, cod, con, cozen, deceive, decoy, delude, diddle, do, do down, dope, double cross, double-cross, dupe, entrap, euchre, flay, fool, Fox, gaff, gudgeon, gull, have, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, hoodwink, hook, humbug, impose, inveigle, jockey, kid, lure, out-jockey, overreach, rip off, rook, sell, short-change, swindle, trick). (various references)

Thai

การหลอกลวง (cheat, duplicity, humbug, lie, mountebankery, sleight, swindle), หลอกลวง (betray, cheat, dupe, euchre, fake out, fiddle, fool, fox, fudge, gull, humbug, mountebank). (various references)

Turkish

sazanlamak (cod, spoof), sazanlama (leg pull, spoof), oyun etmek (deceive, hocus, palter, play a trick, play a trick on smb., play smb. a trick, pull a fast one, trick), oyun (act, acting, canard, dance, device, frolic, game, performance, play, presentment, representation, spectacle, sport, stage play, trick, wheeze), muziplik (caper, Dido, fooling, frolic, joke, lark, prank, rag, teasing, trick), kafese koyma, işletmek (actuate, bamboozle, befool, cod, control, dupe, exploit, hornswoggle, keep, kid, manage, operate, ply, pull smb.'s leg, run, run the show, spoof, work), işletme (exploitation, keeping, leg pull, management, operating, operation, operational, plant, running, undertaking, working, workings). (various references)

Ukrainian

розігрувати (bam, bamboozle, spoof), розиграш, обман (bam, bamboozle, beguilement, bilk, bluff, bunko, cheat, chouse, circumvention, cozenage, deceit, deception, delusion, do, double cross, foist, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gammon, gouge, guile, hanky panky, imposture, juggle, jugglery, lie, overreach, phoney, phony, pretence, pretense, ruse, sell, sham, swindle, trickery, victimization, wile), обдурювати (befool, bilk, cheat, chouse, cod, cog, counterfeit, deceive, doodle, dupe, flimflam, gull, hocus, hoodwink, humbug, jockey, juggle, prey, put upon, queer, sell short), містифікувати (bamboozle, mystify), містифікація (cantrip, chouse, mystification). (various references)

Vietnamese 

trò chơi xỏ tin vịt báo chí, trò chơi khăm (practical, prank), trò đánh lừa (humbug). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "hoax": hoaxed, hoaxer, hoaxers, hoaxes, hoaxing. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Hoax" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hao, Haux, hax, haxy, Heux, hoab, hoad, hoaf, hoag, hoah, Hoak, hoam, hoan, hoat, hoaxe, hoaxi, hoaxs, hoaxy, hoex, hoga, Hoham, hoia, hoiks, hoix, hoja, Hoka, Holah, Hopak, Houa, Houx, Hoxd, hoxi, Hoxja, hoxy, hozad, huac, Huai, koax, moax, noxa, oax, oha, Ohad, ohay, royaux, toax, whoax, woax. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: hao.

-2 letters: ah, ax, ha, ho, oh, ox.

+2 letters: hatbox, hoaxed, hoaxer, hoaxes, thorax.

+3 letters: boxhaul, cashbox, chamoix, hexagon, hexapod, hexosan, hoaxers, hoaxing, hypoxia, oxheart, saxhorn.

+4 letters: amphioxi, boxhauls, chronaxy, hatboxes, hexagons, hexapods, hexapody, hexosans, hypoxias, matchbox, oxhearts, saxhorns, thoraxes, xanthoma, xanthone, xanthous.

+5 letters: amphioxus, auxotroph, boxhauled, cashboxes, chronaxie, hexachord, hexagonal, hexaploid, hypotaxes, hypotaxis, hypoxemia, prothorax, saxophone, shadowbox, toxaphene, xanthomas, xanthones, xylograph.