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1. Pretentious or silly talk or writing
   - baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh [Brit], twaddle
    
2. Communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive
   - snake oil
    
3. Something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
   - fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, put-on, spoof
    
4. [Brit] Boiled mint sweet

1. Trick or deceive

Derived forms: humbugs, humbugged, humbugging

Type of: bunk, chicane, chicanery, cozen, deceit, deceive, deception, delude, guile, hokum, lead on, meaninglessness, misrepresentation, nonsense, nonsensicality, shenanigan, trickery, wile

Encyclopedia: Humbug