Humbugging

Definitions

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

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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