2. Verb. (third-person singular of humbug) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Humbugs
1. humbug [v] - See also: humbug
Lexicographical Neighbors of Humbugs
Literary usage of Humbugs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1874)
"Most of the humbugs palmed off on Americans, are engineered by foreigners from
England, France and Prussia.) This is the title of the label : Veni, Vidi, ..."
2. Biennial Report by Kansas State Horticultural Society (1899)
"We asked them to send us names so that we might warn the people against these
humbugs, and in six months time the horticultural society was denounced ..."
3. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1884)
"He even went so far as to take into consideration mere humbugs ; for, if he could
cheat the enemy with a humbug, why not? The only pain in that case, ..."
4. Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling: Illustrated by Numerous Incantations by Charles Godfrey Leland (1891)
"BOGEYS AND humbugs. ME witches in Slavonian gipsy - lore have now and then parties
which meet to spin, always by full moonlight on a cross-road. ..."
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