humbug

Synonyymisanakirja: humbug

humbug

1. vippaskonsti, juonittelu, vilppi, temppu, metku, kikka, epärehellisyys, petkutus, petos, huijaus, humpuuki, kalliin näköinen mutta arvoton asia, hölynpöly, tyhjä puhe, järjettömyys, merkityksettömyys, roska, soopa, pötypuhe, pöty, puppu, roskapuhe, höpö-höpö, harhaanjohtaminen, slangi, ammattikieli, erikoiskieli, murre, ammattislangi, jargon.

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Käännökset: humbug

humbug suomeksi

humpuuki, huiputtaa

• humpuuki, huijaus, pila, kuje

• huijaus, humpuuki

• huijari, sutki

humbug englanniksi

• puhekieltä A hoax, jest, or prank.

• (quote-book); W. Mynors, at the Corner of w:Chancery Lane|Chancery-Lane, Holborn; and W. Heard, at the Philobiblian's-Library, (w)|year=1754|section=title page|oclc=642524111|passage=The universal jester: or, a pocket companion for the wits. Being a choice collection of merry conceits, facetious Drolleries, humorous Waggeries, smart Repartees, pleasant Jokes, Clenchers, Closures, Bon Mots, and Humbugs; comic Stories, notable Puns, witty Quibbles, and ridiculous Bulls. To which are added, Mr. Puzzlewit's gimcracks ; or, A long String of out-o'th'-way Conundrums, diverting Rebusses, poignant Epigrams, odd and uncommon Epitaphs, &c. &c. All calculated to promote inoffensive Mirth, and divert good Company with Elegance and Taste. Containing more in Number, and greater Variety, than any Book of the Kind yet published. Humbly inscribed to the choice spirits of the age. By Ferdinando Killigrew, Esq.

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• puhekieltä A fraud or sham (qualifier); hypocrisy (qualifier).

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• (quote-book)|year=2008|page=215|oclc=262556595|passage=w:P. T. Barnum|Phineas Taylor Barnum turned profits detecting humbug, staging humbugs, and in authoring books that present him as a humbug. In each case he operated by aestheticizing humbug: in writing tongue-in-cheek "reform" literature about avoiding humbug, in creating narratives or mythologies to advertise his own humbugs, and in celebrating in prose his own ability to balance contradictory roles.

• puhekieltä A fraudster, cheat, or hypocrite.

• 1877 November 24, (w), “A Humbug”, in w:Black Beauty|Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions. The Autobiography of a Horse, London: w:The Jarrold Group|Jarrold and Sons, 3, Paternoster Buildings, (w) http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228733457 228733457; republished as Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, Garden City, N.Y.: w:Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday, Page & Company, 1922, (w) http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/12069677 12069677, https://books.google.com/books?id=5UE1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA151 page 151:

In a few days my new groom came. He was a tall, good-looking fellow enough; but if ever there was a humbug in the shape of a groom, Alfred Smirk was the man. He was very civil to me, and never used me ill; in fact, he did a great deal of stroking and patting when his master was there to see it. (..) But as to cleaning my feet, or looking to my shoes, or grooming me thoroughly, he thought no more of that than if I had been a cow.

• puhekieltä nonsense Nonsense.

• 1992, (w), chapter 3, in Humbug, London: (w), w:International Standard Book Number|ISBN Special:BookSources/9780575053007 978-0-575-05300-7; republished New York, N.Y.: Clarion Books, (w), 1992, w:International Standard Book Number|ISBN Special:BookSources/9780395621493 978-0-395-62149-3, page 17:

When they had gone, Ma Potter opened her eyes. She said, "Pay no attention, child. Don't upset yourself. Just humbug, that's all." / "What do you mean?" Cora whispered. (..) "You mean, telling lies?" / "Not altogether. Humbuggery is what people talk without thinking. Lies are deliberate. Are you a clever child?"

• puhekieltä A type of hard sweet (candy), usually peppermint flavoured with a striped pattern.

• (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(w)|year=2003|isbn=978-0-00-715007-6|passage=Humbugs are sweet, hard candies with a mild peppermint flavor, which are traditionally made in small batches by hand. (..) Humbugs often feature the old-fashioned peppermint-stripe coloration, dark brown and off-white; are usually oblong or square (about the size of your thumb); (..)

• puhekieltä Anything complicated, offensive, troublesome, unpleasant or worrying; a misunderstanding, especially if trivial.

• puhekieltä A fightNoun fight.

• (quote-book)|title=Readings in Juvenile Delinquency|edition=2nd|location=Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.|publisher=(w)|year=1969|pages=225–226|oclc=715599768|passage=Yet, for all the ferocity, the fights were short-lived. Every group except the Vice Kings, who had been most threatened, were brought under control fairly quickly and stayed to see the basketball game—only the Vice Kings missed it. Moreover, despite talk of retaliation, the humbug was self-contained; (..)

• (quote-book)|year=1972|page=364|isbn=978-0-252-00237-3|passage=w:Almighty Vice Lord Nation|Vice Lords refer to all kinds of fighting as humbugging. A fight between a boy and his father, a fight between males and females, a fight between rival clubs, or any other kind of fight can be referred to as a humbug. However, Vice Lords further distinguish between kinds of fighting. Gangbanging refers only to fights between enemy clubs. When individuals wish to distinguish between fights involving two individuals and fights involving rival clubs, they refer to the former as humbugs and the latter as gangbangs.

• (quote-book)|year=1990|pages=197 and 198|isbn=978-0-13-199258-0|passage=page 197 A "humbug" (gang fight) that took place at the Chicago Amphitheater involved both threats to the newly acquired adult status of a gang leader (he had just turned 21 years old) and to group identity among rival gangs. (..) page 198 The humbug provided grist for the mill of individual and group status within the status universe of fighting gangs. In the months that followed no more humbugging between any of these gangs took place, however.

• puhekieltä A gang.

• puhekieltä A false arrest on trumped-up chargeNoun charges.

• (quote-book)|year=2009|isbn=978-0-316-04518-6|passage="Let's talk first, Mr. Brown," Sergeant Murillo said. "Do you remember telling these officers you were going to sue them for false arrest?" / Bootsie Brown paused with the cookie halfway to his lips and said, "I mighta. It was a humbug arrest. That's why they let me and Axel outta jail in forty-eight hours. We was jist tryin' to have an Irish wake for good old Coleman."

• puhekieltä balderdash Balderdash!, nonsense!, rubbishInterjection rubbish!

• (quote-book), 186, w:Strand, London|Strand|date=19 December 1843|pages=6–7|pageurl=https://archive.org/stream/christmascarolin20dickpage/7/mode/1up/|oclc=55746801|passage="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!" / (..) "Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I am sure." / "I do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! what right have you to be merry? what reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough." / "Come, then," returned the nephew gaily. "What right have you to be dismal? what reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough." / Scrooge having no better answer ready on the spur of the moment, said, "Bah!" again; and followed it up with "Humbug."

• puhekieltä To play a trickNoun trick on someone, to cheatVerb cheat, to swindleVerb swindle, to deceive.

• (quote-book) And may all ſuch elves, / Be thus 'Humbuggd themſelves, / Who thus are Humbugging the poor: / And as ſure as the Bone makes the Cleaver to ſound, / Humbugging, Humbugging''' goes all the world round.

• 1810, w:Henry Brooke (writer)|Henry Brooke, “Epilogue on Humbugging”, in (w) and (w), The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper; including the Series Edited, with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Dr. Samuel Johnson: And the Most Approved Translations. The Additional Lives by Alexander Chalmers, F.S.A. In Twenty-one Volumes, volume XVII (Glover, Whitehead, Jago, Brooke, Scott, Mickle, Jenyns), London: Printed for w:James Johnson (engraver)|James Johnson; et al., (w) http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/460902446 460902446, https://books.google.com/books?id=-XwLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA428 page 428:

Of all trades and arts in repute or possession, / Humbugging is held the most ancient profession. / Twixt nations, and parties, and state politicians, / Prim shopkeepers, jobbers, smooth lawyers, physicians, / Of worth and of wisdom the trial and test / Is—mark ye, my friends!—who shall humbug the best.

• 1873 May 1, John F. French, “Farming—Present and Prospective”, in James O. Adams, New Hampshire Agriculture. Third Annual Report of the Board of Agriculture to His Excellency the Governor, Nashua, N.H.: (w), state printer, (w) http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/659327991 659327991, https://books.google.com/books?id=SYIZAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA204 pages 204–205:

Then again farmers are shamefully, lamentably, sometimes almost ruinously humbugged. All classes it is true are humbugged to a certain extent, but farmers in my view suffer themselves to be fooled and swindled in this respect to a greater degree than any other class in the community. They are humbugged in seeds, humbugged in manures, humbugged in agricultural implements, humbugged by agents, humbugged by patent peddlers, humbugged by store-keepers, humbugged by politicians, humbugged by corporations, till finally, some of them are in danger of becoming little less than humbugs themselves.

• (quote-book)|chapter=ACCC v Keshow 2005 FCA 558; Unconscionability, Education and Indigenous Women; Judgment|title=Australian Feminist Judgments: Righting and Rewriting Law|location=Oxford; Portland, Or.|publisher=w:Bloomsbury Publishing|Hart Publishing|year=2014|page=186|isbn=978-1-84946-521-2|passage=Humbugging is an unflattering term that relates to demanding or pressuring behaviour mainly in relation to money. (..) Muriel Palmer said the respondent was humbugging her. Rosina Dickson said the respondent came up to her and asked her if she had any children and was "sort of" humbugging her.

• puhekieltä To fight; to actVerb act tough.

• puhekieltä To wasteVerb waste time talkVerb talking.

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