hoaxing
English
Verb
hoaxing
- present participle and gerund 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.