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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One who humbugs.

Wiktionary

  1. n. dated One who humbugs; a cheat or swindler.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One who humbugs.

Etymologies

  1. humbug +ā€Ž -er (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Watson, however, is himself a gold-plated hypocrite and humbugger.”

    Mr. Watson's Hypocrisy & Humbuggery

  • “Does not the pungent mephitis of hypocrisy once more effortlessly wheeze from this humbugger of a politician?”

    Archive 2007-12-23

  • “LEMON: When I'm not being a "bah, humbugger," I'm a good gift giver.”

    CNN Transcript Dec 12, 2009

  • “But I like it after Thanksgiving, and I'm a grumbler, yes, a grumbler and a bah-humbugger about excessively early encroachment of the Yule.”

    Surrender

  • “Being little conversant at that period with theatrical matters, and having no reason to doubt the honesty of my eloquent ā€œhumbugger,ā€ I easily believed his fine promises.”

    Memoirs of Robert-Houdin

  • “It stops curiously the flow of the current when the humbugger sees the intended humbuggee looking him, with a quizzical 'cuteness, in the eye. and seeming to say by the expression of his own, "Squire, do you see any thing green here?”

    The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches,

  • “By this and that I'll strangle you, if you don't play this minute, you humbugger.”

    Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes

  • “So take your hamburger patty and place it between two other humbugger patties and add a slice of ham or something to replace the cheese.”

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  • “Well if you just substitute the bun and the cheese for other protean you'll have the humbugger you wanted.”

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  • “Sure, that old humbugger was boycotted and girlcutted in debt and doom, on hill and haven, even by the show-the-flag flotilla, as I’m given now to understand, illscribed in all the gratuitouses and conspued in the takeyourhandaways.”

    Finnegans Wake

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