Definition of humbug Humbug
/hʌˈmbʌˌg/ - [humbug] - hum•bug
We found 17 definitions of humbug from 6 different sources.
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What does humbug mean?
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NounPlural: humbugs |
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| humbug - communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive | ||
| snake oil | ||
| humbug - something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage | ||
| fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, put-on | ||
| chicanery, wile, shenanigan, trickery, chicane, guile the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | ||
| humbug - pretentious or silly talk or writing | ||
| baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle | ||
| hokum, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, nonsense, bunk the quality of having no value or significance; "he resented the meaninglessness of the tasks they assigned him" | ||
| argot, lingo, patois, slang, vernacular, jargon, cant a regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard | ||
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| humbug - trick or deceive | ||
| delude, deceive, lead on, cozen cause someone to believe an untruth; "The insurance company deceived me when they told me they were covering my house" | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- humbug (n.)
An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax. - humbug (n.)
A spirit of deception; cajolery; trickishness. - humbug (n.)
One who deceives or misleads; a deceitful or trickish fellow; an impostor. - humbug (v. t.)
To deceive; to impose; to cajole; to hoax.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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humbug
hum′bug, n. an imposition under fair pretences: hollowness, pretence: one who so imposes: a kind of candy.—v.t. to deceive: to hoax:—pr.p. hum′bugging; pa.p. hum′bugged.—adj. Humbug′able, capable of being humbugged.—ns. Hum′bugger, one who humbugs; Hum′buggery, the practice of humbugging. [Orig. 'a false alarm,' 'a bugbear,' from hum and bug, a frightful object.]
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅
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humbug
To deceive, or impose on one by some story or device. A humbug; a jocular imposition, or deception. To hum and haw; to hesitate in speech, also to delay, or be with difficulty brought to consent to any matter or business,
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