humbug

1. 1.

   trick or deceive

   Broaderdeceive

Other forms of humbug

plural

humbugs·

past tense or participle

humbugged

present participle

humbugging

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about humbug

What does humbug mean?

humbug means "pretentious or silly talk or writing". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in humbug?

humbug has 2 syllables: hum-bug. The stress falls on "hum". In IPA it is /ˈhʌmˌbʌɡ/.

What is another word for humbug?

Close synonyms include baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is humbug a common word?

humbug is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with humbug?

5 words rhyme with humbug. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.