humbug
humbug is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A spirit of deception; cajolery; trickishness.
- 2.One who deceives or misleads; a deceitful or trickish fellow; an impostor. Sir J. Stephen.
- 3.To deceive; to impose; to cajole; to hoax.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abroad
- actor
- adventurer
- and
- ass
- bidder
- bungler
- bunko
- capper
- carpetbagger
- charlatan
- cheat
- clothing
- cockatrice
- conjuror
- crimp
- deceive
- deceiver
- decoy
- devil
- dissembler
- duck
- empiric
- faker
- false
- flusher
- four
- fraud
- grass
- gypsy
- home
- horse
- hypocrite
- jilt
- jobber
- jockey
- juggler
- knave
- liar
- lie
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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