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Leg-pulling   /lɛg-pˈʊlɪŋ/   Listen
Leg-pulling

noun
1.
As a joke: trying to make somebody believe something that is not true.  Synonym: leg-pull.





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"Leg-pulling" Quotes from Famous Books



... private opinion, which I confide to you, knowing it will go no further, is that he assumes that tone, as a rule, to draw sovran woman. [Laughter.] Mere man is a paradoxical creature—it is not always possible to distinguish between his sober earnest and his leg-pulling exercises. [Laughter.] One has to be on one's guard, and woe be to the woman who in these days displays that absence of the sense of humor which is such a prominent characteristic of our comic papers. [Laughter.] I do not mean to say for a moment that man assumes ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O • Various
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