hoaxing

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of hoax

noun

1. The perpetration of a hoax.

   “What Gundling thought to himself, amid these pranks and hoaxings, we do not know. The poor soul was not born a fool; though he had become one, by college-learning, vanity, strong-drink, and the world's perversity and his own.”