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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Humbug \Hum"bug'\, noun [Prob. fr. hum to impose on, deceive + bug a frightful object.]
1. An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax.
2. A spirit of deception; cajolery; trickishness.
3. One who deceives or misleads; a deceitful or trickish fellow; an impostor. --Sir J. Stephen.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Humbug \Hum"bug'\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Humbugged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Humbugging}.] To deceive; to impose; to cajole; to hoax.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
humbug
noun
1: pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: {baloney}, {boloney}, {bilgewater}, {bosh}, {drool}, {taradiddle}, {tarradiddle}, {tommyrot}, {tosh}, {twaddle}]
2: communication (writen or spoken) intended to deceive [syn: {snake oil}]
3: something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage [syn: {fraud}, {fraudulence}, {dupery}, {hoax}, {put-on}]
verb: trick or deceive [also: {humbugging}, {humbugged}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
192 Moby Thesaurus words for "humbug": absurdity, acting, affectation, amphigory, appearance, attitudinizing, babble, babblement, balderdash, balls, baloney, bamboozle, beguile, betray, bibble-babble, blabber, blague, blagueur, blather, blatherskite, bluff, bluffer, bluffing, bombast, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, cajole, charlatan, charlatanism, charlatanry, cheat on, cheating, circumvent, claptrap, color, coloring, conjure, crap, deceive, deception, delude, delusion, diddle, disguise, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, double-cross, double-talk, drivel, drool, dupe, eyewash, facade, face, fake, fakement, faker, fakery, faking, false air, false front, false show, falsity, feigning, feint, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flam, flapdoodle, flimflam, flummery, folderol, forestall, four-flushing, fourflusher, fraud, front, fudge, fustian, gabble, galimatias, gammon, get around, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gilt, gloss, gobbledygook, gull, gyp, hoax, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hoke, hokum, hooey, hornswaggle, humbuggery, impersonator, impostor, imposture, jabber, jargon, jiggery-pokery, juggle, let down, malarkey, malingerer, masquerade, meretriciousness, mislead, mock, moonshine, mountebank, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense, ostentation, outmaneuver, outreach, outsmart, outward show, outwit, overreach, pack of nonsense, palaver, phony, piffle, pigeon, play one false, playacting, pose, poser, poseur, posing, posture, prate, prattle, pretender, pretense, pretension, pretext, put something over, quack, quackery, quackishness, quackism, quacksalver, quackster, rant, representation, rigamarole, rigmarole, ringer, rip-off, rodomontade, rot, rubbish, saltimbanco, seeming, sell, semblance, sham, shammer, show, simulacrum, simulation, skimble-skamble, snow, speciousness, spoof, string along, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, take in, trash, trick, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, two-time, vaporing, varnish, waffling, window dressing
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