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HORNSWOGGLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hornswoggle mean?
• HORNSWOGGLE (verb)
The verb HORNSWOGGLE has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: HORNSWOGGLE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deprive of by deceit
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
bunco; con; defraud; diddle; goldbrick; hornswoggle; mulct; nobble; rook; scam; short-change; swindle; victimize
Context example:
She defrauded the customers who trusted her
Hypernyms (to "hornswoggle" is one way to...):
cheat; chisel; rip off (deprive somebody of something by deceit)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hornswoggle"):
short; short-change (cheat someone by not returning him enough money)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
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