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(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) Feigned sickness or distress.
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(obsolete) A liar or sycophant who boasts of his falsehood.
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(countable) An activity that is entertaining or amusing, such as dancing, gunning, or fishing.
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A prankster on April Fool's Day.
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A strategic maneuver that uses some clever means to avoid detection or capture.
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(Britain, informal) Fake, not genuine.
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A delusion; a trick of the brain.
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Alternative spelling of busybody [Someone who interferes with others; one who is nosy, intrusive or meddlesome.]
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A deception or pretense, originally an absurdly obvious one but now in general use.
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(obsolete) A mountebank, someone who addresses crowds in the street; (especially), an itinerant seller of medicines or drugs.
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A quibble, a pedantic or dishonest objection; an act of deception.
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(obsolete) A trick; a sham.
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A trick or deception; a falsehood.
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(obsolete) trick; deception
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Alternative form of cony-catching [(obsolete) Deception, trickery.]
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fraud; deception; the acts of one who cozens
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(slang, obsolete) To disguise something to make it look new.
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(sports, UK) A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player; a feint.
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A person who has been deceived.
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A prankster who misleads others by giving false or exaggerated information.
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someone who is easily fooled or victimised
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(obsolete) cheat; deception
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(derogatory) Someone who takes advantage of the gullible through fakery, especially of a spiritual or religious nature.
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(India, neologism, offensive) A person who keeps bluffing or does empty boasting
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(obsolete) A tricky fellow; a cheat.
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(archaic, UK, slang) A false die; a die intentionally loaded, or unevenly weighted, so that it always rolls a specific number.
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(obsolete) A scheme; contrivance; artifice; a figurative trap or snare.
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(obsolete) To flatter; to wheedle.
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(archaic, slang) Fake documents claiming the loss of property by fire (for use in begging).
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Something fraudulent or nonexistent offered for sale; a swindle or con.
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Worthless material, such as sawdust or green paper, covertly substituted for supposed counterfeit currency being sold to a dupe.
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(transitive) To make gaudy and comical.
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Alternative spelling of hokey: phony, as if a hoax; noticeably contrived. [(US, colloquial) Phony, as if a hoax; noticeably contrived; of obviously flimsy credibility or quality.]
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(obsolete) One who cheats or deceives.
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(slang) To ascribe a false or artificial quality to; to pretend falsely to have some quality or to be doing something, etc.
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(US, colloquial) Phony, as if a hoax; noticeably contrived; of obviously flimsy credibility or quality.
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(uncountable) The process or act of hoodwinking; deception, trickery.
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(dated) An imposition or hoax; humbug.
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(countable, slang) A hoax, jest, or prank.
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Trickery or misrepresentation.
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(archaic) jugglery; trickery or deception
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(Singapore, informal) A phoney or fraudulent item; anything deceptively promoted as genuine or of high quality.
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(by extension) Anything dishonestly obtained.
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(intransitive, dialectal) To pretend poverty.
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Any boastful, false pretender.
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(figuratively) A person considered similarly skillful to the historical ninja, especially in covert or stealthy operation.
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(figuratively) A piece of trickery or falsehood.
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One who lies often; a liar.
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A busybody who makes poor judgments.
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(intransitive) To make an ostentatious show.
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One who performs pranks.
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The actions or practices of a quacksalver; quackery.
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(chiefly US) Alternative form of rigmarole [A long and complicated procedure that seems tiresome or pointless.]
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(countable, by extension) An action intended to deceive; a trick.
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(Jamaica) A confidence trickster, especially one who pretends to have supernatural powers.
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(idiomatic, obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To pretend sickness or insanity.
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A dishonest person; a cheater.
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(uncountable) Deceitful tricks; trickery; games.
adj
(dated) pretentious, sham, counterfeit
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(Internet slang) An image that has been modified using Adobe Photoshop or similar image-manipulation software to produce a misleading impression; an instance of petty, amateur fauxtography.
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A characteristic trait or theme, especially in the way people or media present themselves.
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(Trinidad and Tobago) A conman.
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(idiomatic) A fraudulent, ineffective potion or nostrum; panacea.
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(obsolete) A violent deed.
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(dated, slang) A hoax; a fake story.
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To extort small treats on Halloween by implied threat of property damage or practical joke.
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(colloquial, humorous, dialect) Trickery.
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(uncountable) The art of dressing up; imposture.
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(now rare) Deceptive; using trickery.
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(derogatory, Nation of Islam) technology used for purposes of trickery
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