Meaning of bah humbug | Babel Free

Definitions

Expressing cynicism, disillusionment or distrustfulness; and specifically a dislike of Christmas and its celebrations and festivities.

humorous

Examples

“Honor!—bah! humbug! Patriotism!—pshaw! / Are we to be bamboozled by such guys?”

“Only a modern Scrooge could say⟳, "Bah, Humbug," where helping people to get⟳ enough to eat⟳ is concerned. Well, we are not going to argue⟳ that food aid has never filled an empty stomach or saved a dying child—but we will contend, in the case of the United States at least, that it has done so only inadvertently.”

“[O]nce you understand⟳ why Bah Humbug is a good term, you will see⟳ that it is going to become⟳ packed with a biblical position that could warrant every Christian to mindfully say⟳ "Bah Humbug" about the Christmas Holiday, and know⟳ what it is they are meaning. Bah Humbug is going to work⟳ succinctly.”

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