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Humbug Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Humbug? [n] something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage [n] pretentious or silly talk or writing [v] trick or deceive Synonyms \| Synonyms for Humbug: baloney \| bilgewater \| boloney \| bosh \| drool \| dupery \| fraud \| fraudulence \| hoax \| put-on \| taradiddle \| tarradiddle \| tommyrot \| tosh \| twaddle Related Terms \| Find terms related to Humbug: absurdity \| acting \| affectation \| amphigory \| appearance \| attitudinizing \| babble \| babblement \| balderdash \| balls \| baloney \| bamboozle \| beguile \| betray \| bibble-babble \| blabber \| blague \| blagueur \| blather \| blatherskite \| bluff \| bluffer \| bluffing \| bombast \| bosh \| bull \| bullshit \| bunk \| bunkum \| cajole \| charlatan \| charlatanism \| charlatanry \| cheat on \| cheating \| circumvent \| claptrap \| color \| coloring \| conjure \| crap \| deceive \| deception \| delude \| delusion \| diddle \| disguise \| dissemblance \| dissembling \| dissimulation \| double-cross \| double-talk \| drivel \| drool \| dupe \| eyewash \| facade \| face \| fake \| fakement \| faker \| fakery \| faking \| false air \| false front \| false show \| falsity \| feigning \| feint \| fiddledeedee \| fiddle-faddle \| flam \| flapdoodle \| flimflam \| flummery \| folderol \| forestall \| fourflusher \| four-flushing \| fraud \| front \| fudge \| fustian \| gabble \| galimatias \| gammon \| get around \| gibber \| gibberish \| gibble-gabble \| gilt \| gloss \| gobbledygook \| gull \| gyp \| hoax \| hocus-pocus \| hogwash \| hoke \| hokum \| hooey \| hornswaggle \| humbuggery \| impersonator \| impostor \| imposture \| jabber \| jargon \| jiggery-pokery \| juggle \| let down \| malarkey \| malingerer \| masquerade \| meretriciousness \| mislead \| mock \| moonshine \| mountebank \| mumbo jumbo \| narrishkeit \| niaiserie \| nonsense \| ostentation \| outmaneuver \| outreach \| outsmart \| outward show \| outwit \| overreach \| pack of nonsense \| palaver \| phony \| piffle \| pigeon \| play one false \| playacting \| pose \| poser \| poseur \| posing \| posture \| prate \| prattle \| pretender \| pretense \| pretension \| pretext \| put something over \| quack \| quackery \| quackishness \| quackism \| quacksalver \| quackster \| rant \| representation \| rigamarole \| rigmarole \| ringer \| rip-off \| rodomontade \| rot \| rubbish \| saltimbanco \| seeming \| sell \| semblance \| sham \| shammer \| show \| simulacrum \| simulation \| skimble-skamble \| snow \| speciousness \| spoof \| string along \| stuff and nonsense \| stultiloquence \| take in \| trash \| trick \| trumpery \| twaddle \| twattle \| twiddle-twaddle \| two-time \| vaporing \| varnish \| waffling \| window dressing See Also \| chicanery \| cozen \| deceive \| delude \| goldbrick \| guile \| hokum \| lead on \| meaninglessness \| nonsense \| nonsensicality \| Piltdown hoax \| Piltdown man \| shenanigan \| trickery \| wile Humbug In Webster's Dictionary \Hum"bug`\, n. [Prob. fr. hum to impose on, deceive + bug a frightful object.] 1. An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax. 2. A spirit of deception; cajolery; trickishness. 3. One who deceives or misleads; a deceitful or trickish fellow; an impostor. --Sir J. Stephen. \Hum"bug`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Humbugged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Humbugging}.] To deceive; to impose; to cajole; to hoax.

Humbug Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Humbug?

[n] something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
[n] pretentious or silly talk or writing
[v] trick or deceive

Humbug In Webster's Dictionary

\Hum"bug`\, n. [Prob. fr. hum to impose on, deceive + bug
a frightful object.]
1. An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in
   order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax.

2. A spirit of deception; cajolery; trickishness.

3. One who deceives or misleads; a deceitful or trickish
   fellow; an impostor. --Sir J. Stephen.


\Hum"bug`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Humbugged}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Humbugging}.]
To deceive; to impose; to cajole; to hoax.

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