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by sharps1 1163 days ago
Not that I know of.

I’d guess probably came across it randomly and liked the word. Seems like it comes up in crosswords https://crosswordtracker.com/clue/hornswoggle/

Also funnily not related is a WWE stage wrestler name who had a YouTube video done in them a year ago. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornswoggle.

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Thanks, now I have a mental image of the author as a late middle aged man in a drab brown office, working for a low-rent paper, sitting behind a desk with an old computer that hasn't changed since '98, leaning back and doing crosswords in between writing articles lamenting today's youths and technology. With maybe a overcoat and beaten up fedora hanging up behind him. He smiles slightly while working on the puzzle, hornswoggle, that's the one he's going to sneak into the next article.