hoaxical

English

Etymology

hoax + -ical

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈhəʊks.ɪkl̩/

Adjective

hoaxical (comparative more hoaxical, superlative most hoaxical)

  1. Of or pertaining to a hoax; having the character of a hoax.
    • 1819 February, William Wastle Of That Ilk, Esquire, “The Mad Banker of Amsterdam; or The Fate of the Brauns”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume IV, number XXIII, William Blackwood, page 564:
      XVI. Its want of unity, and therefore use,¶ Would ruin it; its hoaxical hodge-podging;¶ Dull quacks, smart quacks, cramped quacks, and quacks diffuse,[...]
    • 1846 September 26, “Casting Iron Cannon by a galvanic Process”, in Rufus Porter, editor, Scientific American, volume 2, number 1, Munn & Company, page 33:
      A hoaxical looking article, under the above caption, is going the rounds and represents that successful experiments on this subject have been recently made at Berlin.
    • 1992, Rochard Kopley, editor, Poe's Pym: Critical Explorations, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 248:
      Correpondingly, hoaxical, satiric, ironic and deconstructive Eureka-inspired readings should be distinguished from the noncosmological categories of hoaxical, satiric and ironic, and deconstructive readings.
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