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▪ I. hoax, v.|həʊks|
[Appears shortly before 1800; supposed to be a contracted form of hocus v.
This origin suits sense and form, but there is no direct evidence of connexion, and 18th c. quotations for hocus v. are wanting: see that word.]
trans. To deceive or take in by inducing to believe an amusing or mischievous fabrication or fiction; to play upon the credulity of.
1796Grose Dict. Vulg. T., Hoaxing, bantering, ridiculing. Hoaxing a quiz; joking an odd fellow. University wit. 1800Gentl. Mag. LXX. 947 Hoax, Hoxe, or Goaxe, a word much in vogue in political circles. It signifies to make any person the object of ridicule by a species of acclamation. The word is borrowed from the kennel. 1805Sporting Mag. XXVI. 128 He would not be hoaxed any more. 1829W. Leigh Let. to G. Townsend 87 Either the statesman was hoaxing you, or the exile the statesman. 1869Trollope He knew etc. xviii. (1878) 100 The people who bring you news have probably hoaxed you.
absol.1884L. B. Walford Baby's Grandmother II. 119 My word! Bertha, you are hoaxing.
Hence hoaxing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1808J. P. Malcolm Mann. & Cust. Lond. 213 Contriving wonderful stories for the publick..This waggery has recently received the elegant term of hoaxing. 1815Sixteen & Sixty i. iii, Out of my presence, you hoaxing young rake-hell! 1834Lytton Pilgr. Rhine xii. 143 You know..hoaxing is a fashionable amusement among the great.
▪ II. hoax, n.|həʊks|
[f. prec. vb.]
An act of hoaxing; a humorous or mischievous deception, usually taking the form of a fabrication of something fictitious or erroneous, told in such a manner as to impose upon the credulity of the victim.
1808Sporting Mag. XXXII. 104 The hoax was indeed most successful. 1814Stock Exch. Laid Open 20 The day on which the hoax was practised on the Stock Exchange. 1815Sixteen & Sixty ii. iii, In spite of your hoax of the Bath Doctor. 1817Edin. Rev. XXVIII. 382 Having amused himself with a mystification (or what is in England vulgarly called a hoax) on the Mayor. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxi. IV. 613 It is difficult to believe that a Prince..would have been scared by so silly a hoax. 1876Holland Sev. Oaks xiv. 201 A paper which manufactured hoaxes and vended them for news.
b. concr. One who is a deception, ‘a fraud’.
1869Mrs. Stowe Oldtown xxiv. (1870) 263 After all, the beautiful little hoax had nothing for it but her attractive soul-case. |