Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who humbugs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who humbugs.
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- noun dated One who
humbugs ; acheat orswindler .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Watson, however, is himself a gold-plated hypocrite and humbugger.
Archive 2007-10-28 2007
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LEMON: When I'm not being a "bah, humbugger," I'm a good gift giver.
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Watson, however, is himself a gold-plated hypocrite and humbugger.
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Does not the pungent mephitis of hypocrisy once more effortlessly wheeze from this humbugger of a politician?
Archive 2007-12-23 2007
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Does not the pungent mephitis of hypocrisy once more effortlessly wheeze from this humbugger of a politician?
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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 gregvaneekhout 2006
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Being little conversant at that period with theatrical matters, and having no reason to doubt the honesty of my eloquent “humbugger,” I easily believed his fine promises.
Memoirs of Robert-Houdin Houdin, Robert 1858
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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, 1853
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"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 Samuel Lover 1832
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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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