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Humbugging

//ˈhʌmbʌɡɪŋ// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An act of one who humbugs (in all senses, for example, swindling, fighting, etc.). countable, uncountable

    "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."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of humbug. form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From humbug + -ing.

Etymology 2

From humbug + -ing.

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