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Humbug

Humbug Meaning & Definition
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.

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