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(quote-book) R. Whitworth,(nb...); J. Warcus,(nb...); R. Richards,(nb...); W. Mynors,(nb...); and W. Heard,(nb...)|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.
(quote-journal)|location=London|publisher=(...) G. Allen,(nb...)|month=November|year=1772|volume=I|pages=175–176|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=akpGAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA175|oclc=645711122|passage=The profeſſor of the modern ''Humbugg'', for ſuch is the polite name of this qualification, muſt either have from nature an unalterable countenance, or from art a power of commanding all its ſucceſſive variations, and preſerving it inviolably in each, as long as the present ſituation of the caſe renders it neceſſary: he muſt have a head full of imagination, and a heart empty of every trace of candor and humanity.
(quote-journal) Thomas Wilkie,(nb...)|volume=I|issue=III|month=August|year=1822|page=327|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=62wEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA327|oclc=15101686|passage=Look at the affairs of nations on the widest scale—look at their intercourse with each other—look at the manifestoes, by which war is declared—look at the treaties, by which peace is restored—look at the professions of kings, or popes, or generals, or ministers. Is not cant, humbug, hypocrisy, the staple of them all? What is modern diplomacy, but a system of duplicity and deceit?
(quote-journal)|location=Dublin|publisher=(...) Gunn and Cameron,(nb...)|date=29 August 1840|year_published=1841|volume=I|issue=9|page=67|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=IefmcuV6F5YC&pg=PA67|column=1|oclc=605070893|passage=What is the civility of the landlord and his waiters but humbug? What the smirking, smiling, ducking and bowing of the shopkeeper, but humbug? What his sweet and gentle "yes, sirs," and "no, sirs," and "proud to serve you, sirs," but humbug? You are not goose enough to believe for a moment that he is serious, that he has either the least regard or respect for you.
(quote-book)|location=Detroit, Mich.|publisher=Bagg and Harmon,(nb...)|year=1845|pages=170–171|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=0uU0AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA171|oclc=565269669|passage=Many times a whole audience will not only be crowded into a small room, but are noisy disbelievers, call it all a humbug, distract the mind of the magnetizer, and added to these, absolutely outwill the magnetizer, in their wish to bring odium upon the science, and carry their points and gain their ends.
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(RQ:Disraeli Sybil)
(RQ:Thackeray Pendennis)
(RQ:Sewell Black Beauty) 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.
(RQ:Baum Wizard of Oz)
(RQ:Shaw Man and Superman)
(RQ:Doyle Lost World)
(quote-book)|year=1992|page=17|isbn=978-0-395-62149-3|passage=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?"
(senseid) A type of hard sweet (candy), usually peppermint flavoured with a striped pattern.
(quote-book) 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); (..)
Anything complicated, offensive, troublesome, unpleasant or worrying; a misunderstanding, especially if trivial.
A fight.
(quote-book) 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.
A gang.
A false arrest on trumped-up charges.
The piglet of the wild boar.
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Balderdash!, nonsense!, rubbish!
(RQ:Dickens Christmas Carol) "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."
To play a trick on someone, to cheat, to swindle, to deceive.
(quote-book) And may all ſuch elves, / Be thus Humbugg'd 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, 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 Johnson (engraver)|James Johnson; ''et al.'', (w) 460902446, 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) 659327991, 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) 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.
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