Definitions for humbug

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humbug hum·bug

Spelling: [huhm-buhg]

IPA: /ˈhʌmˌbʌg/

Humbug is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in humbug (bghmuu).

Definitions for humbug

noun

1. something intended to delude or deceive.
2. the quality of falseness or deception.
3. a person who is not what he or she claims or pretends to be; impostor.
4. something devoid of sense or meaning; nonsense:
5. British. a variety of hard mint candy.

interjection

1. (used as an expletive to express rejection of something as being completely untrue or nonsensical.)

verb (used with object)

1. to impose upon by humbug or false pretense; delude; deceive.

verb (used without object)

1. to practice humbug.

Origin of humbug

First recorded in 1730-40; origin uncertain

Examples for humbug

Mrs M. is a humbug—not a drop of information can I get for love or money.

All that humbug which has only sent poor folks to rack and ruin!

Lincoln, even such as he is, contrives to humbug most of the Congressmen.

You know that is not a humbug; you know He has heard you when you knelt down and prayed.

Hilda would be best described as a jolly girl with no humbug about her.

There is a vast deal of humbug in the use we make of the word humility.

The family is in that, as in so many other respects, a humbug.

You'll find out what a humbug he is by and by, Mrs. Bartlett.

No one outside Limbaughland or Trumpville, Potemkin villages where no one will vote for Obama anyway, credited the humbug.

We must have humbug, we all like humbug, we couldn't get on without humbug.