fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-on
(noun) something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
humbug, snake oil
(noun) communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive
baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle
(noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing
humbug
(verb) trick or deceive
Source: WordNet® 3.1
humbug (countable and uncountable, plural humbugs)
(countable, slang) A hoax, jest, or prank.
(countable, uncountable, slang) A fraud or sham (countable); hypocrisy (uncountable).
(countable, slang) A fraudster, cheat, or hypocrite.
(uncountable, slang) Nonsense.
(countable, Britain) A type of hard sweet (candy), usually peppermint flavoured with a striped pattern.
(US, countable, slang) Anything complicated, offensive, troublesome, unpleasant or worrying; a misunderstanding, especially if trivial.
(US, countable, African American Vernacular, slang) A fight.
(countable, US, African American Vernacular, slang, dated) A gang.
(countable, US, crime, slang) A false arrest on trumped-up charges.
(countable, slang) (Perhaps by extension) The piglet of the wild boar.
humbug
(slang) Balderdash!, nonsense!, rubbish!
humbug (third-person singular simple present humbugs, present participle humbugging, simple past and past participle humbugged)
(slang) To play a trick on someone, to cheat, to swindle, to deceive.
(US, African American Vernacular, slang) To fight; to act tough.
(slang, obsolete) To waste time talking.
The spellings humbuging and humbuged exist, but are not nearly so common as humbugging and humbugged.
Source: Wiktionary
Hum"bug`, n. Etym: [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.
2. A spirit of deception; cajolery; trickishness.
3. One who deceives or misleads; a deceitful or trickish fellow; an impostor. Sir J. Stephen.
Hum"bug`, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Humbugged; p. pr. & vb. n. Humbugging.]
Definition: To deceive; to impose; to cajole; to hoax.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
18 April 2025
(noun) the crease at the junction of the inner part of the thigh with the trunk together with the adjacent region and often including the external genitals
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
