hoax

English

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)

(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
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)
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)
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

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

(deliberately false story or report): hoaxical, Hoaxocaust, Holo-hoax

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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