1) Baloney 2) Bee 3) Bilgewater 4) Boloney 5) Bosh 6) Bunkum 7) Claptrap 8) Drool 9) Dupery 10) Flam 11) Guff 12) Hoax 13) Hypocrisy 14) Nonsense 15) Rot 16) Sham 17) Tommyrot 18) Tosh 19) Twaddle
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1) Baloney 2) Bilgewater 3) Boiled peppermint sweet 4) Boloney 5) Bosh 6) Bonbon in Britain 7) Bonbon in Europe 8) British confectionery 9) British sweet 10) British sweet treat 11) British confection 12) British candy 13) British bonbon 14) Bunk 15) Candy in Britain 16) Candy in Europe 17) Confection in Britain
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- pretentious or silly talk or writing
- something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
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nonsense, rubbish; used to express disbelief or disgust; something intended to deceive; a hoax or fraud. This was Ebenezer Scrooge's favorite word in A Christmas Carol.
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A humbug is a person or object that behaves in a deceptive or dishonest way, often as a hoax or in jest. The term was first described in 1751 as student slang, and recorded in 1840 as a `nautical phrase`. It is now also often used as an exclamation to mean nonsense or gibberish. When referring to a person, a humbug means a fraud or impostor, imp.....
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[Aboriginal] Humbug is a term applied to various forms of begging and domestic violence in rural and remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, Australia. The term refers primarily to the practice of demanding money from relatives, often violently. A report in The Australian described the practice as a regular occurrence, `dee...
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[magazine] Humbug was a humor magazine edited 1957–1958 by Harvey Kurtzman with satirical jabs at movies, television, advertising and various artifacts of popular culture, from cereal boxes to fashion photographs. Nine of the eleven issues were published in a black-and-white comic book-sized format. With fatally accurate irony, Kurtzman d...
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• (n.) An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax. • (v. t.) To deceive; to impose; to cajole; to hoax. • (n.) A spirit of deception; cajolery; trickishness. • (n.) One who deceives or misleads; a deceitful or trickish fellow; an impostor.Humbug: words in ...
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Hum'bug` noun [ Prob. from
hum to impose on, deceive +
bug a frightful object.]
1. An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax.
2. A spirit of deception; cajolery; trickishness.
3. One who d...
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Hum'bug` transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Humbugged ;
present participle & verbal noun Humbugging .] To deceive; to impose; to cajole; to hoax.
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Humbug is old English for a cheat, a confidence trick, a hoax, a deception. Hence in Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' Scrooge refers to Christmas as 'humbug' he means Christmas is a confidence trick.
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A humbug is a usually striped, boiled sweet with a chewy centre and peppermint flavoured.
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v] - trick or deceive
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A trade name for an isolation transformer (to remove earth or ground loops).
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noun communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive
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verb trick or deceive
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