| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb humbug.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (humbug) | 1. Trick or deceive.[Wordnet]. 2. To deceive; to impose; to cajole; to hoax.[Websters]. 3. Base verb from the following inflections: humbugging, humbugged, humbugs, humbugger, humbuggers, humbuggingly and humbuggedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "HUMBUGGING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1750. (references) |
Specialty Definition: humbug
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Noun] An imposition.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Literature | 1: " `Gentlemen, this humming [expression of applause] is not at all becoming the gravity of this court." - State Trials (1660). 2: "He threatened, but behold! `twas all a hum." 3: Humbug A correspondent in Notes and Queries (March 5th, 1892) suggests as the fons et origo of this word the Italian Uomo bugiardo, a lying man. 4: Peter Pindar, i. 436. 5: To hum used to signify "to applaud," "to pretend admiration," hence "to flatter," "to cajole for an end," "to deceive." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Physics | The form taken on by the set of magnetic field lines trapping a plasma in a magnetic well. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Slang in 1811 | TO HUM, or HUMBUG. To deceive, or impose on one by some story or device. A humbug; a jocular imposition, or deception. To hum and haw; to hesitate in speech, also to delay, or be with difficulty brought to consent to any matter or business. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
| Wikipedic | Humbug in the sense of "hoax, jest" is first attested in 1751 in student slang. Its etymology is unknown. Its present meaning as an exclamation is closer to "nonsense, gibberish", while a humbug means "a fraud, an impostor". (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Interjection] nonsense! 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, stave 1, ‘A Merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!' cried a cheerful voice. It was the voice of Scrooge's nephew, who came upon him so quickly that this was the first intimation he had of his approach. ‘Bah!' said Scrooge, ‘Humbug!'. (references) | 2: [Noun] (UK) A type of chewy sweet (candy). (references) | 3: [Noun] A fraud or sham. (references) | 4: [Noun] A fraudster or cheat. (references) | 5: [Noun] A hoax, prank or jest. (references) | 6: [Verb] To cheat, swindle. (references) | 7: [Verb] To play a trick on. (references) |
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Common Expressions: humbug
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Boo! Humbug | Boo! Humbug is the fifth episode of season one of the television situation comedy Will & Grace. (references) | ||
| Humbug (computer game) | Humbug is a text adventure computer game game written by British programmer Graham Cluley in 1990. The game is set at Christmas, and features the character of Sidney Widdershins as he arrives as his Grandad's mansion for the winter school holidays. (references) | ||
| Humbug (magazine) | Humbug was a humor magazine edited by Harvey Kurtzman. It began August 1957 in a black-and-white comic-book size format. Despite a change to a regular magazine format with the tenth issue, it ceased publication with issue #11. (references) | ||
| Humbug Mountain | Humbug Mountain lies on the coast of Oregon, situated about 6 miles (10 km) south of Port Orford, with Highway 101 passing by its northern base. (references) | ||
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Topics by Level of Interest: humbug | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Humbug | 46 | Humbug | 46 | |
| Humbug (comics) | 11 | Humbug (Aboriginal) | 5 | |
| Humbug Mountain | 10 | Humbug (alternative meanings) | 3 | |
| Humbug (The X-Files) | 9 | Humbug (comics) | 11 | |
| Humbug (Aboriginal) | 5 | Humbug (computer game) | 4 | |
| Humbug (computer game) | 4 | Humbug (magazine) | 3 | |
| Humbug (alternative meanings) | 3 | Humbug (sweet) | 3 | |
| Humbug (magazine) | 3 | Humbug (The X-Files) | 9 | |
| Humbug (sweet) | 3 | Humbug Mountain | 10 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
