noun. Plural form of humbug.

verb. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humbug.

"I mourn to know as humbugs, and the same convent parlour with its piano and the sitting round the fire, and the same supper, and the same lone night in a cell, and the same bright fresh morning when going out into the highly rarefied air was like a plunge into an icy bath."

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