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Definition of Hornswoggling
1. hornswoggle [v] - See also: hornswoggle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hornswoggling
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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