Definition of Hornswoggling

1. Verb. (present participle of hornswoggle) ¹

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Definition of Hornswoggling

1. hornswoggle [v] - See also: hornswoggle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hornswoggling

hornpouts
horns
horns of hyoid bone
horns of plenty
horns of saphenous opening
horns of thyroid cartilage
hornsnake
hornsnakes
hornstone
hornstones
hornswoggle
hornswoggled
hornswoggler
hornswogglers
hornswoggles
hornswoggling (current term)
horntail
horntails
hornwork
hornworks
hornworms
hornwort
hornworts
hornwrack

Literary usage of Hornswoggling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mr. George Jean Nathan Presents by George Jean Nathan (1917)
"... for the hornswoggling of the all too-susceptible reader desiring respectable criticism with a flood of speciously convincing and basically preposterous ..."

2. The Theatre, the Drama, the Girls by George Jean Nathan (1921)
"I bade of him, prefacing my impressive linguistic talent with the sweet word or two essential to the hornswoggling of the fellow's modesty. ..."

3. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"Its best Eastern equivalent is shenanigan, although the less complicated word hornswoggling rather directly translates it." See Shenanigan. Horse-Rake. ..."

4. Legislative Documents Compiled by Order of the ... General Assembly by Iowa General Assembly (1880)
"It would certainly be earlier or later; it wouldn't correspond, the clear thing—there is no hornswoggling about this. Q. There is how many pounds? ..."

5. Creating a Shipping Board, a Naval Auxiliary, and a Merchant Marine by United States, Congress, House (1916)
"It is. as T view it. the second half of the shears that will cut the Gordian knot thai has been hornswoggling us all of these years, the first half being ..."

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