英:['hɔ:nˌswɒgl]
美:['hɔnˌswɒgəl]
英:['hɔ:nˌswɒgl]
美:['hɔnˌswɒgəl]
第三人称单数:hornswoggles
现在分词:hornswoggling
过去式:hornswoggled
过去分词:hornswoggled
verb
transitive verb
to trick or deceive (someone) : bamboozle, hoax—often used with into or out ofBy the end of the call, Santillo had allegedly hornswoggled Olson into parting with her life savings …—Gary CraigIf you want to know what hell can really do in the way of furies, look for the chap who has been hornswoggled into taking a long and unnecessary bicycle ride in the dark without a lamp.—P. G. WodehouseHe also saw his mother get hornswoggled out of $500—seven weeks' salary, the family's entire savings—by a slick traveling vacuum salesman.—Kim Lachance Shandrow
… trying to avoid getting hornswoggled by advertising claims …—Jennifer Rude Klett
"欺骗",1829年,可能是一种幻想的构词方式。相关词汇: Hornswoggled; hornswoggling。
origin unknown
The first known use of hornswoggle was in 1877
1 Responding to a tweet from the reporter Chris Sheridan, who wrote that Jackson had been “hornswoggled,” Jackson wrote, “I’m okay with the Dallas deal.”
2 So calls for greater oversight are welcome, particularly given how Wall Street has hornswoggled some muni issuers over the years.
3 Trumpery, like the verb to trump, involved some sort of cheating, swindling, hornswoggling, or bamboozlement.
4 Music business compromise can be disheartening, but it is not without its perks: It can bolster an artist’s ego, provide financial succor, hornswoggle the masses.
5 Or, had President Trump hornswoggled multiple Congressional leaders, hundreds of Congressional Republicans and key players in his administration into believing he would sign this particular package?
6 Then you also have good reason to take in this entertaining hornswoggle of a movie.
7 He continues: “Down the road, it’ll be just one more instance when voters thought they were doing the right thing and they were hornswoggled. It fuels cynicism and bitterness and mistrust in government.”
8 When this happens, one party or the other is bound to be deeply disappointed that their efforts at mass hornswoggling have failed.
9 Denim for a City That Takes a Tough Hide AS the water line crept higher and higher in the bathtub, it was hard not to think I had been hornswoggled.
10 His ability to hornswoggle tens of millions of voters is no laughing matter.
11 "Me aims to get your slang up to snuff so yees can hornswoggle those lads and lasses of the bakn' sort into handing over a free piping hot doughnut," says the pirate with a laugh.
12 I think we've been hornswoggled by that carnival barker.
13 But don't forget, boys, when you-all want me to hornswoggle Wall Street another flutter, all you-all have to do is whisper the word.
14 “I used to believe this. Now? I am not convinced that they ever did and that news consumers like my younger self were not hornswoggled in some fashion to think that was true.”
15 "I'll be hornswoggled if I can stand this much longer," he gasped out to Frank.
16 "And you let 'em hornswoggle you into takin' it?" demanded the Cap'n.
17 He saw through all pretenses, circumventions and lies — even the ones he told himself — until in the end he was hornswoggled by the biggest lie of all.
18 Anybody would be hornswoggled to glimpse such a droll jest of fate.
19 The fellow I've been having so much fun with—the Nervy Matt that tried to hornswoggle me with my own photograph.
20 If I’d tried to fight him with an independent drive he would have had me hornswoggled all the way to the down-river sortin’-boom, and then would have had my heart out on the scale.
2 欺骗
funny delusive false cross-up hoky-poky take-in do sell plant string abuse curve twist fraud cheat shaft illusion bob deception lurk fiddle gag delusion cog hoax sham trimming gouge deceit trickery bop wile mace gaff shuck gammon barney bunco eyewash hocus falseness flam hokum legerdemain hanky-panky rinky-dink flimflam chicane flivver jiggery-pokery cooch jugglery chiz hokey-pokey gloze rort swiz hokeypokey cootch job lie shit fool boodle practice ring impose bull grease bitch fudge bamboozle bam have dipsy-doodle kid banter diddle gyp cozen cold-deck yentz illude gazoozle fainaigue make work take short green catch stick cross beat jump burn cream dish screw trim palm hose bucket rim hype mock fox Jew deceive sucker buffalo mislead bunk two-time deacon nick jockey chisel dope fob gull lurch ream snooker jive mystify short-change slicker beguile frig fop double-cross jink gudgeon cully trepan gyppo double-X befool chouse make game of bludge on play the rogue slip one over on put it over on have a game with play the fool with a clean shave run a sandy on on the earhole givethe business string on throw a curve on the fiddle give short change come it play games with
3 占…的便宜
4 欺瞒
double-tongued deceitfully verneukering verneukery deception delusion dissemble dissimulate verneuk hocus
5 玩弄
flirtation toy fool monkey fiddle flirt twiddle dally faddle diddle trifle with play fast and loose with play fast and loose fool with