Humbug

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  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • 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
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