| Pronunciation: | | 'hum`bug
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| Matching Terms: | | humbugger, humbuggery
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- [n] something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
- [n] pretentious or silly talk or writing
- [v] trick or deceive
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| | Synonyms: | | baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, dupery, fraud, fraudulence, hoax, put-on, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
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| | See Also: | | chicanery, cozen, deceive, delude, goldbrick, guile, hokum, lead on, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality, Piltdown hoax, Piltdown man, shenanigan, trickery, wile |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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