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humbuggy

humbuggy adjective: resembling or characteristic of a humbug.

Adjective

humbuggy (comparative more humbuggy, superlative most humbuggy)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a humbug.
    • A Napoleonist . . . is generally a brave man who holds in decided contempt any . Humbuggy Show.1844, First Fundamental Basis of Prof. Fr’s. Fauvel-Gouraud’s Phreno-Mnemotechnic Principles, Consisting in a Philosophical Decomposition of All the Human Languages in General, and of the English...
    • The Colonel. De Mortuis nil, but I’m glad, on my honor, that the year 1848 is fairly dead and gone. It was a racketty, troublesome customer. A quarrelsome, cut-throat of a year. There is no peace to its memory. No requiescat in pace for its grave. It ought to be buried under a railroad crossing...1849 February 3, “The Colonel’s Club. Meeting CXLVIII.”, in The Literary World; A Journal of Society, Literature, and Art, volume IV, number 105, New York, N.Y.: E[vert] A[ugustus] & G[eorge] L[ong]...

Examples of humbuggy in a sentence

  • The fact is, the past year, to borrow an expression, was very humbuggy.1849 February 3, “The Colonel’s Club. Meeting CXLVIII.”, in The Literary World; A Journal of Society, Literature, and Art, volume IV...
  • I fancy Dholepur is a very mean, humbuggy town; yet just opposite this dak bungalow are a tank and a pagoda, quite lovely.1874 February 19, Edward Lear, “February 17—March 7”, in Ray Murphy, editor, Edward Lear’s Indian Journal, Jarrolds Publishers (London)...
  • The Gold Coast is humbuggy and knows it and knows you know it.1970 March 1, Tavy Stone, “The Handy, Dandy, Where-It’s-At Guide For Michigan Tourists On The Gold Coast”, in Detroit Free Press, volume...

Forms of humbuggy

comparativemore humbuggy
superlativemost humbuggy

Origin of humbuggy

From humbug + -y.

Questions about humbuggy

What does humbuggy mean?
Humbuggy means resembling or characteristic of a humbug.
How do you use humbuggy in a sentence?
The fact is, the past year, to borrow an expression, was very humbuggy.
What part of speech is humbuggy?
Humbuggy is an adjective.

Words near humbuggy in the dictionary

  1. humbuggery
  2. humbugging
  3. humbuggings
  4. humbuggish
  5. humbuggism
  6. humbuggy
  7. humbuging
  8. humbugism
  9. humbugs
  10. humbuzz
  11. humbuzzes

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