Humbugging

Quick meaning: Humbugging is a noun meaning An act of one who humbugs (in all senses, for example, swindling, fighting, etc.).

Meaning

An act of one who humbugs (in all senses, for example, swindling, fighting, etc.).

More Meanings

1. present participle and gerund of humbug.

Example Sentences

My Friends, and Dear Countrymen, do not discard, / The Song and advice of a Patriot Bard, / Who wants you to listen to Cambria's praise, / To keep up old Customs, and walk in old ways, / So sung in Humbugging, and Tomfoolery.

Vice Lords call fighting humbugging, and robbing hustling. Humbugging is further subdivided: fighting between rival clubs is gangbanging, fighting between individuals is humbugging, and fighting which results when a group of club members goes out to jump on anyone they can find is wolf packing.

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 probably the intention of the author that nobody should. It seems to me humbugging, if I have a right notion of an art of talking or writing that has been invented since I left England.

Word Forms

• humbuggings
• humbuging

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include humbugism, humbuggism, bilking, gulling, swindling, bamboozle.

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