humbug
Meaning of humbug
noun
- A hoax, jest, or prank.
- A fraud or sham (countable); hypocrisy (uncountable).
- A fraudster, cheat, or hypocrite.
- Nonsense.
- A type of hard sweet (candy), usually peppermint flavoured with a striped pattern.
- Anything complicated, offensive, troublesome, unpleasant or worrying; a misunderstanding, especially if trivial.
- (African American Vernacular) A fight.
- (African American Vernacular) A gang.
- A false arrest on trumped-up charges.
- (Perhaps by extension) The piglet of the wild boar.
- To play a trick on someone, to cheat, to swindle, to deceive.
- (African American Vernacular) To fight; to act tough.
- To waste time talking.
interjection
Balderdash!, nonsense!, rubbish!
Information about humbug
- The plural form of humbug is: humbugs.
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Hyphenation of humbug
hum-bug
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- humbug is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
humbug synonyms
Meaning baloney:
baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle
Meaning fraud:
fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax
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