Word Finder - humbug

noun

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A hoax, jest, or prank.

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A fraud or sham (countable); hypocrisy (uncountable).

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A fraudster, cheat, or hypocrite.

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Nonsense.

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A type of hard sweet (candy), usually peppermint flavoured with a striped pattern.

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Anything complicated, offensive, troublesome, unpleasant or worrying; a misunderstanding, especially if trivial.

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(African American Vernacular) A fight.

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(African American Vernacular) A gang.

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A false arrest on trumped-up charges.

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(Perhaps by extension) The piglet of the wild boar.

verb

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To play a trick on someone, to cheat, to swindle, to deceive.

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(African American Vernacular) To fight; to act tough.

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To waste time talking.

interjection

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Balderdash!, nonsense!, rubbish!

Examples of humbug in a Sentence

Our friend Oz is merely a humbug wizard, for he once proved it to me.

But I'm not, my piggy-wees; I'm a humbug wizard.

His view on religion was that organized worship made him feel'such a humbug ' .

Many people say they look like a mint humbug on legs.

A vast amount of stuffy and sentimental humbug has been uttered in favor of the Gospel of Work.

It's enough to make anyone feel bah humbug.

But also because they hate humbug in all its forms.

In the strict sense of the word I am not a Wizard, but only a humbug.

The Humbug is a beetle-like insect and another companion to Milo during his travels.

The Humbug is often wrong and has a poor understanding of sensibility and social grace.

You pompous, fussy old humbug, I'll kick the red cover off you!

Like Cervantes at times, Mark Twain reveals a depth of melancholy beneath his playful humour, and like Moliere always, he has a deep scorn and a burning detestation of all sorts of sham and pretence, a scorching hatred of humbug and hypocrisy.

If you are a bit of a humbug during the holiday season, then dressing up in a Grinch costume should be like easing into your own skin.

A Piece of humbug The very name of " Birth Control " is a piece of pure humbug.

The first thing the little humbug did was to produce a tiny white piglet from underneath his hat and pretend to pull it apart, making two.

When most people think of wizards, they usually think of Lord of the Rings Gandalf, when they're not thinking of the jovial humbug of Oz, that is.

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