humbug

Meaning of humbug

noun
  1. A hoax, jest, or prank.
  2. A fraud or sham (countable); hypocrisy (uncountable).
  3. A fraudster, cheat, or hypocrite.
  4. Nonsense.
  5. A type of hard sweet (candy), usually peppermint flavoured with a striped pattern.
  6. Anything complicated, offensive, troublesome, unpleasant or worrying; a misunderstanding, especially if trivial.
  7. (African American Vernacular) A fight.
  8. (African American Vernacular) A gang.
  9. A false arrest on trumped-up charges.
  10. (Perhaps by extension) The piglet of the wild boar.
verb
  1. To play a trick on someone, to cheat, to swindle, to deceive.
  2. (African American Vernacular) To fight; to act tough.
  3. 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

Words that rhyme with humbug

archhumbug, semihumbug

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