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humbug
Overview of noun humbug
The noun humbug has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle -- (pretentious or silly talk or writing)
2. humbug, snake oil -- (communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive)
3. fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-on -- (something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage)
Overview of verb humbug
The verb humbug has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. humbug -- (trick or deceive)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun humbug
3 senses of humbug
Sense 1
baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle
=> nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum
=> message, content, subject matter, substance
=> communication
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
humbug, snake oil
=> misrepresentation, deceit, deception
=> falsehood, falsity, untruth
=> statement
=> message, content, subject matter, substance
=> communication
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-on
=> trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan
=> deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation
=> falsification, misrepresentaation
=> wrongdoing, wrongful conduct, misconduct, actus reus
=> activity
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun humbug
1 of 3 senses of humbug
Sense 3
fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-on
=> goldbrick
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun humbug
3 senses of humbug
Sense 1
baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle
=> nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum
Sense 2
humbug, snake oil
=> misrepresentation, deceit, deception
Sense 3
fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-on
=> trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan
Antonyms of noun humbug
Member Holonyms of noun humbug
Substance Holonyms of noun humbug
Part Holonyms of noun humbug
Member Meronyms of noun humbug
Substance Meronyms of noun humbug
Part Meronyms of noun humbug
Meronyms of noun humbug
Holonyms of noun humbug
Attributes of noun humbug
Derived Forms of noun humbug
1 of 3 senses of humbug
Sense 3
fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-on
RELATED TO>(verb) humbug#1
=> humbug
Domain of noun humbug
1 of 3 senses of humbug
Sense 1
baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle
USAGE>(noun) slang#2, cant#3, jargon#1, lingo#1, argot#1, patois#1, vernacular#1
Domain Terms of noun humbug
Familiarity of noun humbug
humbug used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun humbug
3 senses of humbug
Sense 1
baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle
> nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum
=> absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousness
=> amphigory, nonsense verse
=> balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle
=> buzzword, cant
=> cobblers
=> crock
=> fa la, fal la
=> gibberish, gibber
=> incoherence, incoherency, unintelligibility
=> jabberwocky
=> mummery, flummery
=> palaver, hot air, empty words, empty talk, rhetoric
=> rigmarole, rigamarole
=> shmegegge, schmegegge
=> stuff, stuff and nonsense, hooey, poppycock
=> baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle
Sense 2
humbug, snake oil
> misrepresentation, deceit, deception
=> bill of goods
=> humbug, snake oil
=> half-truth
=> facade, window dressing
=> exaggeration, overstatement, magnification
=> snow job
=> pretense, pretence, feigning, dissembling
=> subterfuge, blind
=> trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery
=> fraudulence, duplicity
=> evasion, equivocation
Sense 3
fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-on
> trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan
=> fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-on
=> jugglery
Meronyms of noun humbug
3 senses of humbug
Holonyms of noun humbug
Grep of noun humbug
humbug
Antonyms of verb humbug
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb humbug
1 sense of humbug
Sense 1
humbug
=> deceive, lead on, delude, cozen
=> victimize, victimise
=> wrong
=> treat, handle, do by
=> interact
=> act, move
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb humbug
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb humbug
1 sense of humbug
Sense 1
humbug
=> deceive, lead on, delude, cozen
'Cause To' of verb humbug
Derived Forms of verb humbug
1 sense of humbug
Sense 1
humbug
RELATED TO>(noun) humbug#3
=> fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-on
Domain of verb humbug
Domain Terms of verb humbug
Familiarity of verb humbug
humbug used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Sample Sentences of verb humbug
1 sense of humbug
Sense 1
humbug
*> Somebody ----s
*> Somebody ----s somebody
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb humbug
1 sense of humbug
Sense 1
humbug
> deceive, lead on, delude, cozen
=> betray, sell
=> cheat, chisel
=> shill
=> flim-flam, trick, fob, fox, pull a fast one on, play a trick on
=> fool, gull, befool
=> cheat on, cheat, cuckold, betray, wander
=> hoax, pull someone's leg, play a joke on
=> ensnare, entrap, frame, set up
=> humbug
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb humbug
Sense 1
humbug
=> deceive, lead on, delude, cozen
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Grep of verb humbug
humbug
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