NOUN | act | hoax, fraud, fraudulence, dupery, humbug, put-on | something intended to deceive |
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VERB | social | hoax, pull someone's leg, play a joke on | subject to a playful hoax or joke |
Sounds | hhow'ks | |
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Rhymes | coax ... Ochs: 4 rhymes with owks... |
Meaning | Something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage. | |
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Synonyms | fraud, fraudulence, dupery, humbug, put-on | |
Narrower | goldbrick | Anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless |
Broader | trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan | The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) |
Spanish | bulo, camelo, engañifa, engaño, filfa, fraude, mistificación, pastrana, patraña, trampa | |
Catalan | fraudulència, innocentada, jugada, mistificació, trampa, truc | |
Verbs | hoax | subject to a playful hoax or joke |
Meaning | subject to a playful hoax or joke. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody | |
Synonyms | pull someone's leg, play a joke on | |
Broader | deceive, lead on, delude, cozen | Be false to |
Spanish | gastar una broma | |
Nouns | hoax | something intended to deceive |
hoaxer | someone who plays practical jokes on others |
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