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  • verb Present participle of hornswoggle.

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Examples

  • "I suspect that given Traylor's temperament," the source said, "that there won't be any hornswoggling about it."

    David Vitter's primary: Another nuisance for the incumbent, a boon for Democrats 2010

  • "I suspect that given Traylor's temperament," the source said, "that there won't be any hornswoggling about it."

    The Fix: A chance to sink Vitter 2010

  • “I knew you hated her, Miss Holly, but hornswoggling the critter is a downright display of barnyard confetti.”

    SEASONS OF GOLD STEF ANN HOLM 1992

  • As you reminded me, you did such a thorough job of hornswoggling me that I find I am now married to you.

    Eternity Jude Deveraux 1992

  • As you reminded me, you did such a thorough job of hornswoggling me that I find I am now married to you.

    Eternity Jude Deveraux 1992

  • But, instead of responding in the hornswoggling fashion his neighbors did, Pemberton instead removed the alcohol from his coca wine and replaced it something people like almost as much: gigantic amounts of sugar.

    Cracked: All Posts 2010

  • But, instead of responding in the hornswoggling fashion his neighbors did, Pemberton instead removed the alcohol from his coca wine and replaced it something people like almost as much: gigantic amounts of sugar.

    Cracked: All Posts 2010

  • But, instead of responding in the hornswoggling fashion his neighbors did, Pemberton instead removed the alcohol from his coca wine and replaced it something people like almost as much: gigantic amounts of sugar.

    Cracked: All Posts 2010

  • But, instead of responding in the hornswoggling fashion his neighbors did, Pemberton instead removed the alcohol from his coca wine and replaced it something people like almost as much: gigantic amounts of sugar.

    Cracked: All Posts 2010

  • Wonkette as well as the rest of the left-O-sphere worked up into a frothy lather over Henry's low down, hornswoggling ways.

    The Reality Check 2009

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