humbug

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A hoax, jest, or prank.
2. isim A fraud or sham; (uncountable) hypocrisy.
3. isim A cheat, fraudster, or hypocrite.

   “He is a political humbug, the greatest of all humbugs; a man who swaggers about London clubs and consults solemnly about his influence, and in the country is a nonentity.”

4. isim Nonsense.

   “But let me tell Warner, and all ether geniuses of his cast, that such inventions are all a humbug. Such, tactics and tools are all to short-sighted and short-bit­ted for the work proposed.”

5. isim A type of hard sweet (candy), usually peppermint flavoured with a striped pattern.

   “[…] and if Albert Dykes wasn't sucking a mint humbug, my nose is not what it is and always has been.”

6. isim Anything complicated, offensive, troublesome, unpleasant or worrying; a misunderstanding, especially if trivial.
7. isim A fight.

   “Actually we were just looking for something to do because we didn't have any reason to keep out of trouble. All we could do was just drink scrap iron, smoke reefers, and look for a humbug. There was nothing to occupy our minds.”

8. isim A gang.
9. isim A false arrest on trumped-up charges.

   “I pulled the initial investigation report. I see who arrested him and I knew it was a humbug. A humbug is a bullshit arrest. No Police Officer likes to believe they exist; however sometimes it was a fact of life.”

10. isim The piglet of the wild boar.

    “Many have been cross-bred with commercial breeds such as Tamworths, producing a "superbreed" of fertile boar, which were "more robust", and could produce five or six young. known as humbugs, per litter.”

11. ünlem Balderdash!, nonsense!, rubbish!

    “[Mr. Clarendon] Steady. Aristotle laughs at you. / [Mr. Algernon Sidney] Twist. He's an impertinent fellow! I say again—Liberty! freedom! glory! / Steady. Humbug! humbug! humbug!”

12. fiil To play a trick on (someone), to cheat, to swindle, to deceive.

    “A theatrical man or showman has to humbug people. If he doesn't humbug them, they are humbugged.”

13. fiil To fight; to act tough.
14. fiil To waste time talking.