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Etymology
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Reportedly a form of hocus. Possibly from hocus-pocus or Latin iocus (“joke”).
Compare hokey.
Pronunciation
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 that has been maliciously or mischievously fabricated.
Derived terms
Translations
to deceive with a hoax
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
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- Bulgarian: измамвам (bg) (izmamvam)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 欺騙／欺骗 (zh) (qīpiàn), 作弄 (zh) (zuònòng), 戲弄／戏弄 (zh) (xìnòng)
- Czech: podvést (cs), napálit (cs)
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- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Faroese: halda fyri gjøldur, lumpa, villa
- Finnish: huijata (fi)
- French: duper (fr), berner (fr)
- Galician: trafulcar m, trapazar, fraudar, engaitar, embougar, embair, deludir, baratar, decebir, falir (gl)
- German: anführen (de), hereinlegen (de), einen Bären aufbinden (de), foppen (de)
- Hebrew: מתח (he) (matákh)
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: álhíresztel
- Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
- Ido: dup-igo
- Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
- Italian: frodare (it)
- Japanese: ペテンに掛ける (peten-ni kakeru)
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: please add this translation if you can
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Lushootseed: səxʷʔiw̓adəb
- Maori: māminga, tinihanga
- Polish: przekręcać (pl) impf, przekręcić (pl) pf, oszukiwać (pl) impf, oszukać (pl) pf
- Portuguese: fraudar (pt)
- Romanian: păcăli (ro)
- Russian: разы́грывать (ru) impf (razýgryvatʹ), разыгра́ть (ru) pf (razygrátʹ), обманывать (ru) impf (obmanyvatʹ), вводить в заблуждение (ru) impf (vvoditʹ v zabluždenije) (formal)
- Swedish: lura (sv), bedra (sv)
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Noun
hoax (plural hoaxes)
- Anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick.
The phone call to the police about a tiger in a tree turned out to be a hoax.
The news story about the pop singer coming to town, unfortunately for his fans, turned out to be a hoax.
Synonyms
- (deliberately false story or report): canard
Derived terms
Translations
anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick
- Bulgarian: измама (bg) f (izmama), номер (bg) m (nomer), шега (bg) f (šega)
- Catalan: engany (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 騙局／骗局 (zh) (piànjú), 惡作劇／恶作剧 (zh) (èzuòjù)
- Czech: podvod (cs) m, mystifikace f, žert (cs) m, kachna (cs) f
- Esperanto: blago (eo), mistifiko
- Finnish: huijaus (fi)
- French: canular (fr) m, mystification (fr) f, intox (fr) f
- Galician: conto (gl) m, trapallada (gl) f, andrómena (gl) f, algueiro m, alburgada f, enguedello m, grola f, pandullada f, padumada f
- German: Streich (de) m, Trick (de) m, Schabernack (de) m, Gag (de), Falschmeldung (de), Schwindel (de), Ulk (de), Ente (de)
- Greek: φάρσα (el) (fársa)
- Hungarian: átverés (hu), beugratás (hu), kacsa (hu), tréfa (hu)
- Indonesian: hoaks (id)
- Irish: dallamullóg m
- Italian: frode (it) f, inganno (it) m, bufala (it) f
- Japanese: ペテン (ja) (peten), 悪戯 (ja) (いたずら, itazura), でっち上げ (ja) (decchiage)
- Lushootseed: səxʷʔiw̓adəb
- Malay: olokan, olok-olok
- Maori: māminga, tinihanga
- Norwegian: puss (no) n, bedrag (no) n
- Polish: mistyfikacja (pl) f, (dated) szalbierstwo (pl) n
- Portuguese: fraude (pt) f, embuste (pt) m, embustice f, logro (pt) m
- Romanian: cioară vopsită
- Russian: ро́зыгрыш (ru) m (rózygryš), трюк (ru) m (trjuk), мистифика́ция (ru) m (mistifikácija), обма́н (ru) m (obmán)
- Spanish: engaño (es) m, fraude (es) m, embuste (es) m, bulo (es) m (Spain), filfa (es) f
- Swedish: bluff (sv) c
- Tagalog: talimangmang
- Welsh: cast (cy) m
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