IMPOSTURE
ADJECTIVES
► IMPOSTORIOUS having the character of an impostor or imposture; fraudulent; deceitful → 1623 obs.
► PRESTIGIATORY practising ‘prestigiation’; juggling, conjuring; consisting of tricks, impostures, or illusions; deceptive, delusive → 1588 obs.
NOUNS
► ABUSION perversion of the truth; deceit, deception, imposture; also, an instance of such perversion or deception → c1386 obs.
► BILLYBLINDER a ‘blind’, an imposture → 1822 Sc.
► COUNTERFEISANCE a counterfeiting; deceit, fraud, imposture → 1590 obs.
► FALSEHOOD deception, falsification, imposture; a forgery, counterfeit → 1340 obs..
► GAFF a pretense; an imposture → 1877 UK prison sl. obs.
► GULLERY deception, trickery, imposture; a deception, a trick → 1598 obs.
► HOCUS juggling, imposture → M17 sl.
► HOCUS-POCUS a juggler’s trick; thus any form of imposture, trickery → E18 sl.
► HOOK AND SNIVEY ► HOOK AND SNIVVY ► HOOKEM-SNIVEY ► HOOKUM-SNIVEY an imposture or deceit; trickery → 1781 Eng. dial. & sl.
► HUMBUG a thing which is not really what it pretends to be; an imposture, a deception, fraud, sham → 1750
► JUGGLE a trick or act of skill performed by legerdemain; a conjurer’s trick, esp. one claiming to be done by magic or occult influence; hence, an act of deception, an imposture, cheat, fraud → 1664
► PRESTIGE an illusion; a conjuring trick; a deception, an imposture → 1656
► PRESTIGY an illusion; a conjuring trick; a deception, an imposture → 1615 obs.
► SCREW a dishonest trick; an imposture; a cheat → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SMOKE-HOLE an imposture, a trick → 1580 obs.
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