humbuggings
humbuggings is the plural of humbugging.
Meaning of humbugging
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....
Questions about humbuggings
- What is humbuggings the plural of?
- Humbuggings is the plural of humbugging.
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