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Definition of hornswoggle in English: hornswoggleverb ˈhɔːnswɒɡ(ə)lˈhɔrnˌswɑɡəl [with object]North American informal Get the better of (someone) by cheating or deception. 〈非正式，主北美〉占…便宜；哄骗 the day would soon arrive when Peter would see he'd been well and truly hornswoggled Example sentencesExamples - There is also a sobering running assumption that Jessica, as a woman of what the French call a certain age, is starved for love and easily hornswoggled by any handsome young man who cozies up to her.
- A couple of the young lions of the business will show you the limits of credibility, the far reaches of imagination, and the ease with which the less skeptical can be hornswoggled.
- I have a vision at this point of Quantum Fields staggering back and, hand to brow, muttering ‘Godfrey Daniel, I've been hornswoggled!’
- However those responsible for this 30th Anniversary release are sentenced to 30 years of hard labor in the California desert for lying to, cheating, and hornswoggling an unsuspecting public.
- This episode just shows that scientists and technicians who are exposed to phenomena that are sufficiently far out of their fields, can be completely hornswoggled.
- But at least that is useful, I guess - given the way people so often get hornswoggled by so-called ‘experts’ these days.
- Now the Mangy Mouse is trying to milk any money it can out of the ape-raised human, hoping to, yet again, hornswoggle parents out of their hard-earned mortgage payments.
- Before an audience of people who supposedly spend their days pursuing the truth, he joked about misstatements (if not lies) he had used to persuade (if not hornswoggle) the American people and the media.
- So don't be hornswoggled into thinking that this is some sort of magic bridge between the legendary and the not-so-good.
- She had been mistaken, lulled, hopeful, hornswoggled.
- The two days of testimony in the House last week revealed an embarrassing ignorance on the part of legislators who believe tribes acted in bad faith or somehow hornswoggled the state when the compacts were originally negotiated.
- I have seen magic done without props but never without an audience; any audience will do, but I must leave hornswoggling to the aspiring magician.
- Instead, he seems to have suggested he was hornswoggled by someone named Lucy.
- And how could they have been so brazenly hornswoggled?
- Whilst being muggled and hornswoggled, Eddie managed to reach into his pocket, pull out his pistol, and shoot himself in the leg.
- And Mike was hornswoggled enough to replace some of his martial graphics with a picture of some nice mountain scenery.
- Was he really trying to hornswoggle the troops and the American people?
- He's very easily dazzled, and we might add, hornswoggled and hoodwinked.
- A reader identified simply as, ‘Vincenzo,’ amplifies Christian's description of the previous time that this same program was hornswoggled by the very same trick.
- This site also cites a trick attributed to Christopher Columbus in 1504, in which he is said to have hornswoggled the dumb island natives he was dealing with.
Synonyms deceive, trick, dupe, outwit, fool, delude, cheat, take in, bluff, hoax, mislead, misguide, lead on, defraud, double-cross, swindle, gull, finagle, get the better of
OriginEarly 19th century (originally US): of unknown origin. Definition of hornswoggle in US English: hornswoggleverbˈhɔrnˌswɑɡəlˈhôrnˌswäɡəl [with object]usually be hornswoggledNorth American informal Get the better of (someone) by cheating or deception. 〈非正式，主北美〉占…便宜；哄骗 you mean to say you were hornswoggled? Example sentencesExamples - Instead, he seems to have suggested he was hornswoggled by someone named Lucy.
- And how could they have been so brazenly hornswoggled?
- So don't be hornswoggled into thinking that this is some sort of magic bridge between the legendary and the not-so-good.
- Now the Mangy Mouse is trying to milk any money it can out of the ape-raised human, hoping to, yet again, hornswoggle parents out of their hard-earned mortgage payments.
- A reader identified simply as, ‘Vincenzo,’ amplifies Christian's description of the previous time that this same program was hornswoggled by the very same trick.
- This site also cites a trick attributed to Christopher Columbus in 1504, in which he is said to have hornswoggled the dumb island natives he was dealing with.
- Before an audience of people who supposedly spend their days pursuing the truth, he joked about misstatements (if not lies) he had used to persuade (if not hornswoggle) the American people and the media.
- This episode just shows that scientists and technicians who are exposed to phenomena that are sufficiently far out of their fields, can be completely hornswoggled.
- A couple of the young lions of the business will show you the limits of credibility, the far reaches of imagination, and the ease with which the less skeptical can be hornswoggled.
- And Mike was hornswoggled enough to replace some of his martial graphics with a picture of some nice mountain scenery.
- There is also a sobering running assumption that Jessica, as a woman of what the French call a certain age, is starved for love and easily hornswoggled by any handsome young man who cozies up to her.
- The two days of testimony in the House last week revealed an embarrassing ignorance on the part of legislators who believe tribes acted in bad faith or somehow hornswoggled the state when the compacts were originally negotiated.
- Whilst being muggled and hornswoggled, Eddie managed to reach into his pocket, pull out his pistol, and shoot himself in the leg.
- Was he really trying to hornswoggle the troops and the American people?
- She had been mistaken, lulled, hopeful, hornswoggled.
- He's very easily dazzled, and we might add, hornswoggled and hoodwinked.
- But at least that is useful, I guess - given the way people so often get hornswoggled by so-called ‘experts’ these days.
- However those responsible for this 30th Anniversary release are sentenced to 30 years of hard labor in the California desert for lying to, cheating, and hornswoggling an unsuspecting public.
- I have a vision at this point of Quantum Fields staggering back and, hand to brow, muttering ‘Godfrey Daniel, I've been hornswoggled!’
- I have seen magic done without props but never without an audience; any audience will do, but I must leave hornswoggling to the aspiring magician.
Synonyms deceive, trick, dupe, outwit, fool, delude, cheat, take in, bluff, hoax, mislead, misguide, lead on, defraud, double-cross, swindle, gull, finagle, get the better of
OriginEarly 19th century (originally US): of unknown origin. |