humbug

noun · interjection · verbA2

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noun

Plural noun:

humbugs

1.
(countable, slang)A hoax, jest, or prank.
2.
(countable, slang)A fraud or sham; (uncountable) hypocrisy.
3.
(countable, slang)A cheat, fraudster, or hypocrite.
4.
(slang, uncountable)Nonsense.
But let me tell Warner, and all ether geniuses of his cast, that such inventions are all a humbug. Such, tactics and tools are all to short-sighted and short-bitted for the work proposed.
5.
(British, countable)A type of hard sweet (candy), usually peppermint flavoured with a striped pattern.
6.
(US, countable, slang)Anything complicated, offensive, troublesome, unpleasant or worrying; a misunderstanding, especially if trivial.
7.
(US, countable, slang)(US, countable, African-American Vernacular, slang) A fight.
8.
(US, countable, dated, slang)(countable, US, African-American Vernacular, slang, dated) A gang.
9.
(US, countable, slang)(countable, US, crime, slang) A false arrest on trumped-up charges.
10.
(countable, slang)(countable, slang, perhaps by extension) The piglet of the wild boar.

interjection

1.
(slang)Balderdash!, nonsense!, rubbish!

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

humbugs

V_ing/Gerund

humbugging

V_ed/pp

humbugged

1.
(ambitransitive, slang)To play a trick on (someone), to cheat, to swindle, to deceive.
Of all trades and arts in repute or possession, / Humbugging is held the most ancient profession. / Twixt nations, and parties, and state politicians, / Prim shopkeepers, jobbers, smooth lawyers, physicians, / Of worth and of wisdom the trial and test / Is—mark ye, my friends!—who shall humbug the best.
Then again farmers are shamefully, lamentably, sometimes almost ruinously humbugged. All classes it is true are humbugged to a certain extent, but farmers in my view suffer themselves to be fooled and swindled in this respect to a greater degree than any other class in the community. They are humbugged in seeds, humbugged in manures, humbugged in agricultural implements, humbugged by agents, humbugged by patent peddlers, humbugged by store-keepers, humbugged by politicians, humbugged by corporations, till finally, some of them are in danger of becoming little less than humbugs themselves.
2.
(US, slang)(US, African-American Vernacular, slang) To fight; to act tough.
3.
(obsolete, slang)To waste time talking.

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Origin; the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) states that “the facts as to its origin appear to have been lost, even before the word became common enough to excite attention”. It has been suggested that the word possibly derives from hummer ((slang) An obvious lie), or from hum + bug (a goblin, a spectre).