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单词 humbug
释义 hum·bug
I. \ˈhəmˌbəg\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: origin unknown
1.
 a. : something designed to deceive and mislead : quackery, hoax, fraud, imposture
  < contrived so many delicious humbugs to foist on the gullible public — R.L.Taylor >
 b. : a person who usually willfully deceives or misleads others as to his true condition, qualities, or attitudes : one who passes himself off as something that he is not : sham, hypocrite, impostor
  < denounced as humbugs the playwrights who magnify the difficulties of their craft — Times Literary Supplement >
  < he's no doctor; he's a humbug >
 c. : an attitude or spirit of pretense and deception or self-deception
  < in all his humbug, in all his malice and hollowness — Mary Lindsay >
 d. : something empty of sense or meaning : drivel, nonsense
  < a frightful lot of humbug talked about glasses — L.B.Somerville-Large >
  < academic humbug >
2. Britain : a peppermint candy
Synonyms: see imposture
II. transitive verb
: impose on : deceive, cajole, hoax
 < humbugged me into buying his worthless stock >
 < humbugged by their doctors, pillaged by their tradesmen — G.B.Shaw >
intransitive verb
: to play the part of a humbug
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