Noun: hoax
| Singular | hoax |
| Plural | hoaxes |
Sample Sentences
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The phone call to the police about a tiger in a tree turned out to be a hoax.
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The news story about the pop singer coming to town, unfortunately for his fans, turned out to be a hoax.
Nouns inflected like hoax
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Reportedly a form of hocus. Possibly from hocus-pocus or Latin iocus (“joke”).
2. Compare hokey. See: Latin Nouns '
iocus'.