hoax

English

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Reportedly a form of hocus. Possibly from hocus-pocus or Latin iocus (“joke”).

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.

to deceive with a hoax

Bulgarian: измамвам (bg) (izmamvam)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 欺騙 (zh), 欺骗 (zh) (qīpiàn), 作弄 (zh) (zuònòng), 戲弄 (zh), 戏弄 (zh) (xìnòng)
Czech: podvést (cs), napálit (cs)
Faroese: halda fyri gjøldur, lumpa, villa
Finnish: huijata (fi)
French: duper (fr), berner (fr)
German: anführen (de), hereinlegen (de), einen Bären aufbinden (de), foppen (de)

Hebrew: מתח‎ (matákh)
Ido: dup-igo
Italian: frodare (it)
Japanese: ペテンに掛ける (peten-ni kakeru)
Maori: māminga, tinihanga
Portuguese: fraudar (pt)
Russian: разы́грывать (ru) impf (razýgryvatʹ), разыгра́ть (ru) pf (razygrátʹ), обманывать (ru) impf (obmanyvatʹ), вводить в заблуждение (ru) impf (vvoditʹ v zabluždenije) (formal)

hoax (plural hoaxes)

anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick

Japanese: ペテン (peten), 悪戯 (いたずら, itazura), でっち上げ (decchiage)
Maori: māminga, tinihanga
Norwegian: puss (no) n, bedrag (no) n
Polish: mistyfikacja (pl) f, (dated) szalbierstwo (pl) n
Portuguese: fraude (pt) m, embuste (pt) m, embustice f, logro (pt) m
Romanian: cioara vopsita
Russian: ро́зыгрыш (ru) m (rózygryš), трюк (ru) m (trjuk), мистифика́ция (ru) m (mistifikácija), обма́н (ru) m (obmán)
Spanish: bulo (es) m, filfa f
Swedish: bluff (sv) c
Tagalog: talimangmang
Welsh: cast (cy) m

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