Synonyms of pulling one's leg

pulling one's leg

phrase

present participle of pull one's leg

as in deceiving

to cause to believe what is untrue

He was just pulling your leg when he said he won the lottery.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• deceiving
• tricking
• fooling
• sucking in
• stringing along
• taking in
• doing a number on
• having on
• faking out
• gammoning
• kidding
• leading one up the garden path
• pulling the wool over one's eyes
• teasing
• leading one down the garden path
• misleading
• hornswoggling
• juggling
• buffaloing
• stinging
• duping
• putting on
• humbugging
• bluffing
• suckering
• snowing
• burning
• hoodwinking
• gaffing
• deluding
• gulling
• misguiding
• cheating
• cozening
• conning
• hoaxing
• misinforming
• beguiling
• having
• spoofing
• bamboozling
• catching
• snookering
• gypping
• flimflamming
• sticking
• bleeding
• euchring
• defrauding
• swindling
• shortchanging
• chiselling
• fleecing
• mulcting
• rooking
• hustling
• chiseling
• squeezing
• skinning
• diddling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• showing up
• revealing
• exposing
• uncovering
• disclosing
• debunking
• unmasking
• undeceiving
• telling
• unveiling
• divulging
• uncloaking
• disillusioning
• disabusing
• disenchanting