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humbugging

  • /ˈhʌmbʌɡɪŋ/ UK
  • /ˈhəmˌbəɡɪŋ/ US

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From humbug + -ing.

noun humbuggings

  1. countable, uncountable An act of one who humbugs (in all senses, for example, swindling, fighting, etc.). Extract from a letter to Horace Walpole, written from Florence, in Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Sir Horace Mann, ed. W. S. Lewis, Warren Hunting Smith, and George L. Lam (1960), p. 446. […] You will laugh at me, I suppose, when I say I don't understand Tristram Shandy, because it was probabl

verb humbuging

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of humbug

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@misc{humbugging_2026,
  title = {humbugging},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/humbugging},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}