单词 | humbug |
释义 | hum·bug I. 1. a. < contrived so many delicious humbugs to foist on the gullible public — R.L.Taylor > b. < denounced as humbugs the playwrights who magnify the difficulties of their craft — Times Literary Supplement > < he's no doctor; he's a humbug > c. < in all his humbug, in all his malice and hollowness — Mary Lindsay > d. < a frightful lot of humbug talked about glasses — L.B.Somerville-Large > < academic humbug > 2. Britain Synonyms: see imposture II. < humbugged me into buying his worthless stock > < humbugged by their doctors, pillaged by their tradesmen — G.B.Shaw > intransitive verb |
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