hoax

Mane (Îngilîzî)

Verb

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

Noun

Anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick.

Sînonîm

trick

fool

cheat

deception

deceive

swindle

humbug

hoodwink

dupe

bamboozle

mystify

spoof

con

imposture

fraud

sham

bluff

cheating

deceit

defraud

gyp

bilk

trickery

take in

put-on

dupery

fake

delusion

swindler

chisel

jiggery pokery

screw

jest

scam

joke

🤣

kidding

canard

leg-pull

mere nothing

fib

mare’s nest

rook

trick someone

gammon

fleece

mystification

cheater

outwit

play a joke on

forgery

pull someone’s leg

imitation

imposition

stratagem

fraudulence

do

gouge

shave

shortchange

short-change

sleight

snow job

sophism

sophistry

sting

strike

subterfuge

swindling

treachery

waggery

wangle

welch

whipsaw

antics

hornswoggle

Josh

play tricks

take-in

tall story

cantrip

hokey-pokey

humbuggery

sport

flim-flam

swiz

pull smb.’s leg

cannard

work

artifice

astuteness

badinage

bam

banter

befool

beguile

beguilement

bosh

cackle

chaff

chicane

circumvent

circumvention

counterfeit

cozen

cozenage

deceptiveness

diddle

dodge

double-cross

fallacy

fiddle

finagle

frisk

fun

gag

gip

goldbrick

green

guile

hum

impose

indirection

jape

jeer

jockey

juggle

juggling

laugh

😆

lure

mare’s-nest

mockery

mulct

pleasantry

ploy

prank

pretence

pull the wool over someone’s eyes

quibbling

raillery

rally

rig

rip-off

setup

shark

🦈

Wekî (IPA) tê gotin

/həʊks/

Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

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