hoax

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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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /həʊks/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /hoʊks/

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• Rhymes: -əʊks
• Homophone: hokes

Verb

hoax (third-person singular simple present hoaxes, present participle hoaxing, simple past and past participle hoaxed)

1. (transitive) To deceive (someone) by making them believe something that has been maliciously or mischievously fabricated.

Derived terms

• hoaxable
• hoaxee
• hoaxer
• hoaxster (rare)
• unhoax

Translations

to deceive with a hoax

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: please add this translation if you can Basque: please add this translation if you can 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) Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: please add this translation if you can 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) Khiamniungan Naga: yânglòupīng Khmer: please add this translation if you can Korean: 속임수를 쓰다 (sogimsu-reul sseuda), 사기(를) 치다 (sagi(-reul) chida) Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: melagiena f 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) Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: lừa đảo (vi), chơi khăm (vi)

Noun

hoax (plural hoaxes)

1. Anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick.

   Synonym: canard

   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.

Derived terms

• climate hoax
• coronahoax
• global hoax
• hoaxical
• hoaxlike
• Hoaxocaust
• hoaxter
• Holohoax

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, habaďůra f, falešná zpráva 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) Khiamniungan Naga: yânglòupīng, yāng-ō 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: ludíbrio (pt) m, fraude (pt) f, embuste (pt) m, embustice f, logro (pt) m Romanian: cioară vopsită, fumigenă f Russian: ро́зыгрыш (ru) m (rózygryš), трюк (ru) m (trjuk), мистифика́ция (ru) m (mistifikácija), обма́н (ru) m (obmán) Sicilian: mbrogghiu m, mbrusatura f, pigghiata pû culu f Spanish: engaño (es) m, fraude (es) m, embuste (es) m, bulo (es) m (Spain), filfa (es) f, borrego (es) m (Latin America), paparrucha (es) f, paparruchada (es) f, trola f, infundio (es) m Swedish: bluff (sv) c Tagalog: talimangmang Welsh: cast (cy) m