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発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈhəʊks.ɪkl̩/

形容詞

hoaxical (comparative more hoaxical, superlative most hoaxical)

1. Of or pertaining to a hoax; having the character of a hoax.
   • 1819 February, William Wastle Of That Ilk, Esquire, “The Mad Banker of Amsterdam; or The Fate of the Brauns”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine^[1], volume IV, number XXIII, William Blackwood, page 564:

     XVI. Its want of unity, and therefore use,¶ Would ruin it; its hoaxical hodge-podging;¶ Dull quacks, smart quacks, cramped quacks, and quacks diffuse,[...]

   • 1846 September 26, “Casting Iron Cannon by a galvanic Process”, in Rufus Porter, editor, Scientific American^[2], volume 2, number 1, Munn & Company, page 33:

     A hoaxical looking article, under the above caption, is going the rounds and represents that successful experiments on this subject have been recently made at Berlin.

   • 1992, Rochard Kopley, editor, Poe's Pym: Critical Explorations^[3], Duke University Press, ISBN 0822312468, page 248:

     Correpondingly, hoaxical, satiric, ironic and deconstructive Eureka-inspired readings should be distinguished from the noncosmological categories of hoaxical, satiric and ironic, and deconstructive readings.