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gammoning

verb , present participle of gammon

Synonyms and Antonyms of gammoning

to cause to believe what is untrue

good-hearted contributors have been gammoned into believing that most of the charity's funds go to the needy and not into the pockets of the administrators

Synonyms of gammoning

bamboozling, beguiling, bluffing, buffaloing, burning, catching, conning, cozening, deceiving, deluding, duping, faking out, fooling, gaffing, gulling, having, having on [chiefly British], hoaxing, hoodwinking, hornswoggling, humbugging, juggling, misguiding, misinforming, misleading, snookering, snowing, spoofing, stringing along, suckering, sucking in, taking in, tricking

Words Related to gammoning

kidding, putting on, teasing

bleeding, cheating, chiseling (or chiselling), defrauding, diddling, euchring, fleecing, flimflamming, gypping, hustling, mulcting, rooking, shortchanging, skinning, squeezing, sticking, stinging, swindling

Phrases Synonymous with gammoning

doing a number on, leading one down the garden path (also leading one up the garden path), pulling one's leg, pulling the wool over one's eyes

Near Antonyms of gammoning

debunking, exposing, revealing, showing up, uncloaking, uncovering, unmasking

disclosing, divulging, telling, unveiling

disabusing, disenchanting, disillusioning

Antonyms of gammoning

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