humbug 音标拼音: [h'ʌmb
, ʌg]
vt . 欺骗,欺诈,瞒骗
vi . 行骗
n . 欺骗,欺诈,骗子
欺骗,欺诈,瞒骗行骗欺骗,欺诈,骗子
humbug n 1 :
pretentious or silly talk or writing [
synonym : {
baloney },
{
boloney }, {
bilgewater }, {
bosh }, {
drool }, {
humbug },
{
taradiddle }, {
tarradiddle }, {
tommyrot }, {
tosh }, {
twaddle }]
2 :
communication (
written or spoken )
intended to deceive [
synonym :
{
humbug }, {
snake oil }]
3 :
something intended to deceive ;
deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage [
synonym : {
fraud }, {
fraudulence }, {
dupery },
{
hoax }, {
humbug }, {
put -
on }]
v 1 :
trick or deceive Humbug \
Hum "
bug `\,
n . [
Prob .
fr .
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 .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
A spirit of deception ;
cajolery ;
trickishness .
[
1913 Webster ]
3 .
One who deceives or misleads ;
a deceitful or trickish fellow ;
an impostor . --
Sir J .
Stephen .
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1913 Webster ]
Humbug \
Hum "
bug `\,
v .
t . [
imp . &
p .
p . {
Humbugged };
p .
pr . &
vb .
n . {
Humbugging }.]
To deceive ;
to impose ;
to cajole ;
to hoax .
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1913 Webster ]
192 Moby Thesaurus words for "
humbug ":
absurdity ,
acting ,
affectation ,
amphigory ,
appearance ,
attitudinizing ,
babble ,
babblement ,
balderdash ,
balls ,
baloney ,
bamboozle ,
beguile ,
betray ,
bibble -
babble ,
blabber ,
blague ,
blagueur ,
blather ,
blatherskite ,
bluff ,
bluffer ,
bluffing ,
bombast ,
bosh ,
bull ,
bullshit ,
bunk ,
bunkum ,
cajole ,
charlatan ,
charlatanism ,
charlatanry ,
cheat on ,
cheating ,
circumvent ,
claptrap ,
color ,
coloring ,
conjure ,
crap ,
deceive ,
deception ,
delude ,
delusion ,
diddle ,
disguise ,
dissemblance ,
dissembling ,
dissimulation ,
double -
cross ,
double -
talk ,
drivel ,
drool ,
dupe ,
eyewash ,
facade ,
face ,
fake ,
fakement ,
faker ,
fakery ,
faking ,
false air ,
false front ,
false show ,
falsity ,
feigning ,
feint ,
fiddle -
faddle ,
fiddledeedee ,
flam ,
flapdoodle ,
flimflam ,
flummery ,
folderol ,
forestall ,
four -
flushing ,
fourflusher ,
fraud ,
front ,
fudge ,
fustian ,
gabble ,
galimatias ,
gammon ,
get around ,
gibber ,
gibberish ,
gibble -
gabble ,
gilt ,
gloss ,
gobbledygook ,
gull ,
gyp ,
hoax ,
hocus -
pocus ,
hogwash ,
hoke ,
hokum ,
hooey ,
hornswaggle ,
humbuggery ,
impersonator ,
impostor ,
imposture ,
jabber ,
jargon ,
jiggery -
pokery ,
juggle ,
let down ,
malarkey ,
malingerer ,
masquerade ,
meretriciousness ,
mislead ,
mock ,
moonshine ,
mountebank ,
mumbo jumbo ,
narrishkeit ,
niaiserie ,
nonsense ,
ostentation ,
outmaneuver ,
outreach ,
outsmart ,
outward show ,
outwit ,
overreach ,
pack of nonsense ,
palaver ,
phony ,
piffle ,
pigeon ,
play one false ,
playacting ,
pose ,
poser ,
poseur ,
posing ,
posture ,
prate ,
prattle ,
pretender ,
pretense ,
pretension ,
pretext ,
put something over ,
quack ,
quackery ,
quackishness ,
quackism ,
quacksalver ,
quackster ,
rant ,
representation ,
rigamarole ,
rigmarole ,
ringer ,
rip -
off ,
rodomontade ,
rot ,
rubbish ,
saltimbanco ,
seeming ,
sell ,
semblance ,
sham ,
shammer ,
show ,
simulacrum ,
simulation ,
skimble -
skamble ,
snow ,
speciousness ,
spoof ,
string along ,
stuff and nonsense ,
stultiloquence ,
take in ,
trash ,
trick ,
trumpery ,
twaddle ,
twattle ,
twiddle -
twaddle ,
two -
time ,
vaporing ,
varnish ,
waffling ,
window dressing
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HUMBUG Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster imposture, fraud, sham, fake, humbug, counterfeit mean a thing made to seem other than it is imposture applies to any situation in which a spurious object or performance is passed off as genuine
Humbug - Wikipedia When referring to a person, a humbug means a fraud or impostor, implying an element of unjustified publicity and spectacle In modern usage, the word is most associated with the character Ebenezer Scrooge, created by Charles Dickens in his 1843 novella A Christmas Carol
HUMBUG | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary HUMBUG definition: 1 dishonest talk, writing, or behaviour that is intended to deceive people: 2 a hard sweet… Learn more
HUMBUG Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com HUMBUG definition: something intended to delude or deceive See examples of humbug used in a sentence
HUMBUG definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary If you describe someone's language or behaviour as humbug, you mean that it is dishonest or insincere
humbug - Wiktionary, the free dictionary humbug (third-person singular simple present humbugs, present participle humbugging, simple past and past participle humbugged) (slang, ambitransitive) To play a trick on (someone), to cheat, to swindle, to deceive quotations
humbug noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes . . . Definition of humbug noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more
humbug, n. adj. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary There are seven meanings listed in OED's entry for the word humbug, one of which is labelled obsolete See ‘Meaning use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence
Humbug - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com Humbug is language that's either deceptive or just ridiculous Either way, it's verbal garbage and inspires people to mutter "Bah! Humbug!" — just like Scrooge did in A Christmas Carol
Humbug - definition of humbug by The Free Dictionary humbug (ˈhʌmˌbʌɡ) n 1 a person or thing that tricks or deceives 2 nonsense; rubbish