humbug

B2 大学 FREQ #25887

vt. 欺骗, 哄骗 vi. 行骗 n. 骗子, 欺骗, 欺诈

发音

CA /ˈhʌmbʌɡ/
UK /ˈhʌmbʌɡ/
AU
US /ˈhəmˌbəɡ/

词形变化

humbugs 复数 humbugs humbuged humbugged humbugging humbuging humbugs 三单 humbugging 现在分词 humbugged 过去式 humbugged 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

骗子；欺骗；谎话

动词

欺骗；哄骗

动词

行骗

释义与例句

n. B2
  1. 1.

    A hoax, jest, or prank.

    可数 俚语 不可数
  2. 2.

    A fraud or sham; (uncountable) hypocrisy.

    可数 俚语 不可数
  3. 3.

    A cheat, fraudster, or hypocrite.

    可数 俚语 不可数
  4. 4.

    Nonsense.

    俚语 不可数 可数
  5. 5.

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

    可数 不可数
  6. 6.

    Anything complicated, offensive, troublesome, unpleasant or worrying; a misunderstanding, especially if trivial.

    美国 可数 俚语 不可数
  7. 7.

    A fight.

    美国 可数 俚语 非裔美国英语 不可数
  8. 8.

    A gang.

    美国 可数 过时 俚语 非裔美国英语 不可数
  9. 9.

    A false arrest on trumped-up charges.

    美国 可数 俚语 不可数
  10. 10.

    The piglet of the wild boar.

    可数 俚语 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

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

    及物/不及物 俚语

    Of all trades and arts in repute or possession, / Humbugging is held the most ancient profession. / Twixt nations, and parties, and state politicians, / Prim shopkeepers, jobbers, smooth lawyers, physicians, / Of worth and of wisdom the trial and test / Is—mark ye, my friends!—who shall humbug the best.

    Then again farmers are shamefully, lamentably, sometimes almost ruinously humbugged. All classes it is true are humbugged to a certain extent, but farmers in my view suffer themselves to be fooled and swindled in this respect to a greater degree than any other class in the community. They are humbugged in seeds, humbugged in manures, humbugged in agricultural implements, humbugged by agents, humbugged by patent peddlers, humbugged by store-keepers, humbugged by politicians, humbugged by corporations, till finally, some of them are in danger of becoming little less than humbugs themselves.

    1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados "Good heavens!" he managed to articulate, "how do you know?" "Isn't that what you wanted of me?" asked Carrados suavely. "Don't humbug, Max," said Carlyle severely. "This is no joke."

  2. 2.

    To fight; to act tough.

    美国 俚语 非裔美国英语
  3. 3.

    To waste time talking.

    废旧 俚语
interj.
  1. 1.

    Balderdash!, nonsense!, rubbish!

    俚语

词汇关系

名词

同义词 10

fraud hoax drool baloney tosh bosh bilgewater boloney dupery fraudulence

上位词 10

nonsense bunk deception deceit trickery guile wile meaninglessness chicane chicanery

下位词 1

goldbrick
动词

上位词 4

deceive delude cozen lead on

相关短语

bah humbug

词源

Origin unknown; the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) states that “the facts as to its origin appear to have been lost, even before the word became common enough to excite attention”. It has been suggested that the word possibly derives from hummer (“(slang) An obvious lie”), or from hum (“(dialectal and slang) to cajole; delude; impose on”) + bug (“a goblin, a spectre”). In his Slang Dictionary (1864), English bibliophile and publisher John Camden Hotten (1832–1873) suggested a link to the name of the German city of Hamburg, “from which town so many false bulletins and reports came during the war in the last century”, or alternatively a derivation from ambage. Hotten also said he had traced the earliest occurrence of the word to the title page of Ferdinando Killigrew’s book The Universal Jester (see quotations), which he dated to about 1735–1740. This dating has therefore been adopted by other dictionaries. However, the OED dates the word to about 1750, as the earliest edition of Killigrew’s work has been dated to 1754.

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