[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
      1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

humbug \hum"bug`\, v. t. imp.  p. p. humbugged; p. pr.  vb.
   n. humbugging.
   to deceive; to impose; to cajole; to hoax.
   1913 webster
see also:
humbugged humbugging 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

humbug
     n 1: pretentious or silly talk or writing syn: baloney, boloney,
           bilgewater, bosh, drool, taradiddle, tarradiddle,
           tommyrot, tosh, twaddle
     2: communication writen or spoken intended to deceive syn: snake
        oil
     3: something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended
        to gain an advantage syn: fraud, fraudulence, dupery,
         hoax, put-on
     v : trick or deceive
     also: humbugging, humbugged
see also:
baloney boloney bilgewater bosh drool taradiddle 
tarradiddle tommyrot tosh twaddle snake oil 
fraud fraudulence dupery hoax put-on 
humbugging humbugged 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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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