To cheat, to deceive. Variations of this ungenteel word are classed with it.
1852. [He] had honey-fackled him in the matter of a heap of logs.—Knick. Mag., xl. 548. (For a fuller citation see CAHOOT.)
1856. They go cavorting out, honey-fuggling their consciences with the patent-salve idea of rest and relaxation.—Id., xlviii. 286 (Sept.).
1856. Pardon me for using the word; but Sharp “honey-fuggled” around me.—Mr. Bennet of Nebrhaska, House of Repr., July 22: Cong. Globe, p. 965, App.
1860. P. F. is going to hornswoggle the Douglas Democrats.—Oregon Argus, May 12.
1862. Now we want the particulars as to how much honey fugling and wool pulling was done.—Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Aug. 14.
1865. I ain’t no giant-killer. I ain’t no Norwegian bar. I ain’t no boar-constrikter, but I’ll be hornswaggled if the talkin and the writin and the slanderin has got to be all done on one side any longer. Sum of your folks have got to dry up or turn our folks loose.—Bill Arp’s ‘Letter to Artemus Ward,’ Sept. 1.
1866. I can’t be honeyfuggled as to how my money comes, and how it goes.—C. H. Smith, ‘Bill Arp,’ p. 119.
