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— English words —

• humbug n. (Countable, slang) A hoax, jest, or prank.
• humbug n. (Countable, slang) A fraud or sham; (uncountable) hypocrisy.
• humbug n. (Countable, slang) A cheat, fraudster, or hypocrite.
• humbug n. (Uncountable, slang) Nonsense.
• humbug n. (Countable, Britain) A type of hard sweet (candy), usually peppermint flavoured with a striped pattern.
• humbug n. (US, countable, slang) Anything complicated, offensive, troublesome, unpleasant or worrying; a misunderstanding…
• humbug n. (US, countable, African American Vernacular, slang) A fight.
• humbug n. (Countable, US, African American Vernacular, slang, dated) A gang.
• humbug n. (Countable, US, crime, slang) A false arrest on trumped-up charges.
• humbug n. (Countable, slang, perhaps by extension) The piglet of the wild boar.
• humbug interj. (Slang) Balderdash!, nonsense!, rubbish!
• humbug v. (Slang) To play a trick on someone, to cheat, to swindle, to deceive.
• humbug v. (US, African American Vernacular, slang) To fight; to act tough.
• humbug v. (Slang, obsolete) To waste time talking.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Hungarian
  • humbug n. Humbug.
  • humbug interj. Humbug!
• Polish
  • humbug n. (Dated) humbug, hoax.

— English words, defined in French —

• humbug n. Blague.
• humbug n. Bonbon glacé à la menthe.
• humbug n. Baliverne.
• humbug n. Fausse accusation criminelle.
• humbug n. Bagarre, particulièrement entre deux bandes de jeunes.
• humbug v. Jouer un tour, faire une farce, une blague.
• humbug v. Tricher.
• humbug v. (États-Unis) Combattre.
• humbug v. (Trinité-et-Tobago) Interférer, déranger.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• humbug s. Estafa, engaño.
• humbug s. Disparate, patraña.
• humbug s. Defraudador, hipócrita.
• humbug s. Caramelo sabor menta.

— In German —

• Humbug S. Salopp, abwertend: etwas Unglaubwürdiges, Törichtes.

— In Dutch —

• humbug n. Schijnvertoning uit bluf of bedrog.

— In French —

• humbug n.m. (Anglicisme) (Vieilli) Charlatanisme avec fracas par annonces…

68 English words from 17 English definitions

act African African␣American American Anything arrest Balderdash boar Britain by␣extension candy charges cheat complicated countable crime dated deceive extension false false␣arrest fight flavoured fraud fraudster gang hard hoax humbug hypocrisy hypocrite jest misunderstanding nonsense obsolete offensive pattern peppermint perhaps piglet play prank rubbish sham slang someone striped sweet swindle talking the time tough trick troublesome trumped trumped␣up type uncountable unpleasant usually Vernacular waste waste␣time wild wild␣boar with worrying

16 English words from 16 foreign definitions

accusation à␣la blague Bonbon Disparate entre Estafa faire farce fracas glacé menta par Tobago tour Unis

42 foreign words from 16 foreign definitions

abwertend Anglicisme annonces avec Bagarre Baliverne bandes bedrog bluf Caramelo Charlatanisme Combattre criminelle Defraudador déranger deux engaño entre␣deux États États-Unis etwas faire␣une Fausse hipócrita Interférer jeunes Jouer Jouer␣un␣tour menthe particulièrement patraña sabor Salopp Schijnvertoning Törichtes Tricher Trinité Trinité-et-Tobago uit une Unglaubwürdiges Vieilli

16 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

humbugs humbuged humbugged humbugger humbuging humbugism humbugable humbuggers humbuggery humbugging humbuggish humbuggism humbuggable humbuggings humbuggeries humbugability

One time in the middle (New word found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

unhumbugged

One prefix (New word found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

bah␣humbug

9 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

bug Bug hum Hum HUM MBU umb UMB umb-

3 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

gub muh MUH

2 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

humbugs Umbaugh

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