Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
humbugger .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word humbuggers.
Examples
-
Her synthetic outrage is, of course, the work of one of the nation's foremost humbuggers and as fine an example of Pharisaism as you could wish.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
-
Her synthetic outrage is, of course, the work of one of the nation's foremost humbuggers and as fine an example of Pharisaism as you could wish.
-
VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Paul Krugman: Tidings of Comfort'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Unlike the tea partiers and the humbuggers, disappointed progressives have valid complaints.
-
I passed the better part of the afternoon and evening sitting there drinking the local waters, devising new betting systems to test the following morning, and striving — without much success — to distinguish between the humbuggers and the humbugged.
Off to the Races 2007
-
I passed the better part of the afternoon and evening sitting there drinking the local waters, devising new betting systems to test the following morning, and striving — without much success — to distinguish between the humbuggers and the humbugged.
Off to the Races 2007
-
“All the world is here,” the former New York City mayor and celebrated diarist Philip Hone wrote in 1839: politicians and dandies; cabinet ministers and ministers of the gospel; officeholders and office seekers; humbuggers and humbugged; fortune hunters and hunters of woodcock; anxious mothers and lovely daughters.
Off to the Races 2007
-
Unlike the tea partiers and the humbuggers, disappointed progressives have valid complaints.
-
“All the world is here,” the former New York City mayor and celebrated diarist Philip Hone wrote in 1839: politicians and dandies; cabinet ministers and ministers of the gospel; officeholders and office seekers; humbuggers and humbugged; fortune hunters and hunters of woodcock; anxious mothers and lovely daughters.
Off to the Races 2007
-
Just a little Monday morning understanding from Jay Smooth for all the humbuggers out there this holiday season.
Feministing 2009
-
OK, humbuggers, we’re getting a bit carried away here, but it is the season of cheesy festive songs plus everyone is up to their neck in best of lists.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.