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Meaning of Hornswoggle in English

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Hornswoggle

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Verb

1. bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize

deprive of by deceit

Example Sentences:
'He swindled me out of my inheritance'
'She defrauded the customers who trusted her'
'the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Hornswoggle

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verb
(transitive) slang
to cheat or trick; bamboozle

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Hornswoggle

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verb transitiveWord forms: ˈhornˌswoggled or ˈhornˌswoggling
Slang
to swindle or hoax; trick

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Hornswoggle

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tr.v. horn·swog·gled, horn·swog·gling, horn·swog·gles
Chiefly Northern & Western US
To bamboozle; deceive.

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