noun. Something intended to deceive; a hoax or fraud.

noun. A person who claims to be other than what he or she is; an impostor.

noun. Nonsense; rubbish.

noun. Pretense; deception.

interjection. Used to express disbelief or disgust.

intransitive verb. To deceive or trick.

intransitive verb. To practice deception or trickery.

noun. A trick; an imposition, especially an imposition perpetrated under fair and honorable pretenses; a hoax.

noun. A spirit of deception or imposition; falseness; hollowness; pretense; sham: as, there is a great deal of humbug about him.

noun. An impostor; a cheat; a deceitful fellow; a person given to cajolery, flattery, or specious stories.

noun. A form of nippers for grasping the cartilage of the nose in refractory cattle.

noun. A kind of candy. See the extract.

To deceive by a false pretense; impose upon; cajole; hoax.

To practise deceit or trickery.

transitive verb. To deceive; to impose; to cajole; to hoax.

noun. An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax.

noun. A spirit of deception; cajolery; trickishness.

noun. One who deceives or misleads; a deceitful or trickish fellow; an impostor.

noun. A hoax, prank or jest

noun. A fraud or sham

noun. A fraudster or cheat

noun. A type of chewy sweet (candy)

interjection. nonsense!

verb. To play a trick on.

verb. To cheat, swindle.

noun. pretentious or silly talk or writing

noun. something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

noun. communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive

verb. trick or deceive

"In her severe cross-examination, the counsel (a very plain, if not an ugly person) observed she had frequently used the term humbug, and desired to know what she meant by it, and to {65} have an explanation; to which she replied,"

humbugged  humbugger  humbuggery  humbugging  

bunk  cozen  deceit  deceive  deception  

artifice  cad  cowardice  deceit  dissimulation  

absurdity  acting  affectation  amphigory  appearance  

humbugged  humbugging  

humbugged  humbugging  humbugs