Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to spoof
Participle: spoofed
Gerund: spoofing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | spoof |
| you | spoof |
| he;she;it | spoofs |
| we | spoof |
| you | spoof |
| they | spoof |
Perfect
| I | have spoofed |
| you | have spoofed |
| he;she;it | has spoofed |
| we | have spoofed |
| you | have spoofed |
| they | have spoofed |
Past
| I | spoofed |
| you | spoofed |
| he;she;it | spoofed |
| we | spoofed |
| you | spoofed |
| they | spoofed |
Pluperfect
| I | had spoofed |
| you | had spoofed |
| he;she;it | had spoofed |
| we | had spoofed |
| you | had spoofed |
| they | had spoofed |
Future
| I | will spoof |
| you | will spoof |
| he;she;it | will spoof |
| we | will spoof |
| you | will spoof |
| they | will spoof |
Future Perfect
| I | will have spoofed |
| you | will have spoofed |
| he;she;it | will have spoofed |
| we | will have spoofed |
| you | will have spoofed |
| they | will have spoofed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | spoof |
| you | spoof |
| he;she;it | spoof |
| we | spoof |
| you | spoof |
| they | spoof |
Perfect
| I | have spoofed |
| you | have spoofed |
| he;she;it | have spoofed |
| we | have spoofed |
| you | have spoofed |
| they | have spoofed |
Imperfect
| I | spoofed |
| you | spoofed |
| he;she;it | spoofed |
| we | spoofed |
| you | spoofed |
| they | spoofed |
Pluperfect
| I | had spoofed |
| you | had spoofed |
| he;she;it | had spoofed |
| we | had spoofed |
| you | had spoofed |
| they | had spoofed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would spoof |
| you | would spoof |
| he;she;it | would spoof |
| we | would spoof |
| you | would spoof |
| they | would spoof |
Perfect
| I | would have spoofed |
| you | would have spoofed |
| he;she;it | would have spoofed |
| we | would have spoofed |
| you | would have spoofed |
| they | would have spoofed |
Imperative
| you | spoof |
| we | Let's spoof |
| you | spoof |
Verbs conjugated like 'spoof'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'spoof'
poof,
spook,
spool,
spoom,
spoon,
spoor,
boof,
choof,
floof,
goof,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Coined by English comedian Arthur Roberts in 1884 as the name of a card game involving deception and nonsense.
Sample Sentences
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Her [Jean Harlow's] best film is generally considered to be Bombshell (1933), in which she spoofed her own career as a Hollywood sex goddess. [1971, Harvey R. Deneroff, “Harlow, Jean”, in Edward T. James, Janet Wilson James, Paul S[amuel] Boyer, editors, Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary, volumes II (G–O), Cambridge, Mass.; London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 137:]
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[T]he ensemble [of From A to Z] included […] Elliott Reid spoofing television coverage of a political convention, Kelly Brown trying out another of those nostalgic soft-shoe numbers, and so on. The first-act finale observed a venerable revue tradition by spoofing a current hit show; From A to Z chose The Sound of Music. [2002, Ethan Mordden, “What’s in It for You?: The Shows of 1960”, in Open a New Window: The Broadway Musical in the 1960s (Golden Age of the Broadway Musical), New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 9:]
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According to the audio commentary on "Treehouse Of Horror III," some of the creative folks at The Simpsons were concerned that the "Treehouse of Horror" franchise had outworn its welcome and was rapidly running out of classic horror or science-fiction fodder to spoof. [2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “The Simpsons (Classic): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 01 Sep 2017:]
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The resulting conception of the Gulf region as a series of local destinations, as opposed to being an integrated maritime space unified by a body of water, is so pervasive that when Mississippi state legislator Steve Holland proposed renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America in an effort to spoof his anti-immigration colleagues the joke was lost on the national media (Wilkinson 2012). [2014, Philip E. Steinberg, “Mediterranean Metaphors: Travel, Translation and Oceanic Imaginaries in the 'New Mediterraneans' of the Arctic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean”, in Jon Anderson, Kimberley Peters, editors, Water Worlds: Human Geographies of the Ocean, Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 27:]
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Bandy is a few miles from Duffersville—how many I won't say, because when, on local information, I told Ebsworth three and he walked it, he declared he had been deliberately spoofed, and went about vowing reprisals. [1889, Faed, [pseudonym; Arthur James Wilson], Nym [pseudonym], Duffersville: Its Cycling Chronicles and Other Sketches, Dublin: Irish Cyclist & Athlete Office; London: Iliffe and Son; Shrewsbury, Shropshire: F. W. Jervis, →OCLC, page 14:]
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Amidst surroundings thus happily suggesting the idyllic and pastoral associations of Arcady, is an unpretending booth, the placards on which announce it to be the temporary resting-place of the "Far-famed Adepts of Thibet," who are there for a much-needed change, after a "3500 years' residence in the Desert of Gobi." There is also a solemn warning that "it is impossible to spoof a Mahatma." [1892 August 27, “Two Penn’orth of Theosophy. (A Sketch at the Islington Arcadia.)”, in T. Taylor, editor, Punch, volume CIII, London: Published at the office, 85, Fleet Street, →OCLC, page 85, column 1:]
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The fraudsters convincingly spoofed a Microsoft webpage and then invited their victims to click various links found there.
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However, MULTOPS assumes that packet rates between two hosts are proportional and the IP addresses are not spoofed. [2003, Tao Peng, Christopher Leckie, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, “Detecting Distributed Denial of Service Attacks by Sharing Distributed Beliefs”, in Rei Safavi-Naini, Jennifer Seberry, editors, Information Security and Privacy: 8th Australasian Conference, ACISP 2003, Wollongong, Australia, July 9–11, 2003: Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 2727), Berlin; New York, N.Y.: Springer, →ISBN, page 224:]
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[I]dentities in the online world can be easily spoofed. Your ten-year-old daughter will know that a middle-aged man is not her age or gender when she sees him in the physical world. But as we have seen, that middle-aged man can easily pass himself off as another ten-year-old girl in the online world. [2007, Wes Kussmaul, “The Solution”, in The Sex Life of Tables: What Happens When Databases about You … Mate, Waltham, Mass.: PKI Press, →ISBN, page 83:]
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This attack [session hijacking] uses the fact that most communications are protected at session setup but not thereafter. The attacker spoofs the victim's IP address and performs a DoS [denial-of-service] attack on the victim. [2009, Manfred Fettinger, “Overview of Security Attacks”, in Intrusion Detection in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks: Comparison of Different Approaches, [Munich]: GRIN Verlag, →ISBN, section 2.5.2 (Session Hijacking), page 5:]
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For the U.S. and its allies, finding new ways to navigate is crucial. In the Ukraine war, Russia is jamming and spoofing—blocking and faking signals [respectively]—so frequently that satellite navigation isn’t dependable. Other potential adversaries, including China and North Korea, possess similar capabilities. GPS spoofing by militaries has become a civilian hazard as well, presenting a risk to commercial aircraft. “This problem hasn’t been as urgent until right now, when we are seeing the end of reliable GPS,” said Russell Anderson, a principal scientist at Q-CTRL, the Australian startup that ran the test flight. “It is the arms race of the current day, in terms of navigation.” [2025 November 19, Mike Cherney, “The Pentagon Can’t Trust GPS Anymore. Is Quantum Physics the Answer? New devices navigate without satellites or risk of enemy jamming signals”, in The Wall Street Journal, archived from the original on 20 Nov 2025:]