humbugging
Syllables: hum·bug·gingUK/ˈhʌmbʌɡɪŋ/US/ˈhəmˌbəɡɪŋ/
humbugging noun: an act of one who humbugs (in all senses, for example, swindling, fighting, etc.). Also the present participle and gerund of humbug.
Noun
humbugging (countable and uncountable, plural humbuggings)
- An act of one who humbugs (in all senses, for example, swindling, fighting, etc.).
- 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...1760 November 1, Horace Mann [Sir Horace Mann, 1st Baronet], “Horace Mann on Sterne’s ‘Humbugging’”, quoted in Alan B. Howes, editor, Laurence Sterne: The Critical Heritage, London; New York, N.Y....
- My Friends, and Dear Countrymen, do not discard, / The Song and advice of a Patriot Bard, / Who wants you to listen to Cambria's praise, / To keep up old Customs, and walk in old ways, / So sung in Humbugging, and Tomfoolery.1859, J[ohn] H[enry] P[hillips] [i.e., John Scourfield], “A Welsh Ode. Composed for the Eisteddfod.”, in Lyrics, and Philippics, [s.l.]: Middle Hill Press, OCLC 562485204; reprinted London: G....
Also used as
humbugging is also the present participle and gerund of humbug.
Examples of humbugging in a sentence
- 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.1760 November 1, Horace Mann [Sir Horace Mann, 1st Baronet], “Horace Mann on Sterne’s ‘Humbugging’”, quoted in Alan B. Howes, editor...
- Vice Lords call fighting humbugging, and robbing hustling.1979, R. Lincoln Keiser, The Vice Lords: Warriors of the Streets (Illinois Collection), New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →OCLC...
Forms of humbugging
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | humbuggings |
| Verb | |
| alternative form | humbuging |
Origin of humbugging
From humbug + -ing.
Phrases with humbugging
Questions about humbugging
- What does humbugging mean?
- Humbugging means an act of one who humbugs (in all senses, for example, swindling, fighting, etc.).
- How do you use humbugging in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is humbugging?
- Humbugging is a noun.
- How do you pronounce humbugging?
- Humbugging is pronounced /ˈhʌmbʌɡɪŋ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of humbugging?
- The plural of humbugging is humbuggings.
Words near humbugging in the dictionary
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