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humbugnoun an imitation that is passed off as genuinetests showed that the "old" map of America was a cleverly made humbug counterfeit, fake, forgery, hoax, phony(also phoney), sham copycat, knockoffcopy, facsimile, replica, reproductiondummy, mock-upfraud, gaff, imposture, spoof, swindlesimulation, syntheticbastard, brummagem, duffer, shoddy original language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sensethose UFO stories are a lot of humbug applesauce(slang), balderdash, baloney(also boloney), beans, bilge, blah(also blah-blah), blarney, blather, blatherskite, blither, bosh, bull(slang), bunk, bunkum(or buncombe), claptrap, codswallop(British), crapola(slang), crock, drivel, drool, fiddle, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flannel(British), flapdoodle, folderol(also falderal), folly, foolishness, fudge, garbage, guff, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hoodoo, hooey, horsefeathers(slang), humbuggery, jazz, malarkey(also malarky), moonshine, muck, nerts(slang), nonsense, nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, slush, stupidity, taradiddle(or tarradiddle), tommyrot, tosh, trash, trumpery, twaddle absurdity, asininity, fatuity, foolery, idiocy, imbecility, inaneness, inanity, insanity, kookiness, lunacyabsurdness, craziness, madness, witlessnesshoity-toity, monkey business, monkeyshine(s), shenanigan(s), tomfoolerygas, hot air, rigmarole(also rigamarole)double-talk, greek, hocus-pocus levelheadedness, rationality, reasonability, reasonableness, sensiblenesscommon sense, horse sense, sensediscernment, judgment(or judgement), wisdom one who makes false claims of identity or expertiseone humbug after another claimed to be the miraculously surviving daughter of the Russian czar charlatan, fake, faker, fakir, fraud, hoaxer, impostor(or imposter), mountebank, phony(also phoney), pretender, quack, quacksalver, ringer, sham copycat, imitator, impersonator, mimicactor, bluffer, counterfeiter, deceiver, dissembler, duper, feigner, misleader, operator, tricksterposeurcozener, defrauder, dodger, fraudster(chiefly British), scammer, scamster, sharper, sharpie(or sharpy), skinner, swindler ace, adept, authority, crackerjack(also crackajack), expert, maestro, master, past master, professional, virtuoso, whiz, wizard to cause to believe what is untruehumbugged into believing that the bones were the skeleton of a prehistoric human being bamboozle, beguile, bluff, buffalo, burn, catch, con, cozen, deceive, delude, dupe, fake out, fool, gaff, gammon, gull, have, have on(chiefly British), hoax, hoodwink, hornswoggle, juggle, misguide, misinform, mislead, snooker, snow, spoof, string along, suck in, sucker, take in, trick kid, put on, teasebleed, cheat, chisel, defraud, diddle, euchre, fleece, flimflam, gyp, hustle, mulct, rook, shortchange, skin, squeeze, stick, sting, swindle do a number on, lead one down the garden path(also lead one up the garden path), pull one's leg, pull the wool over one's eyes undeceive debunk, expose, reveal, show up, uncloak, uncover, unmaskdisclose, divulge, tell, unveildisabuse, disenchant, disillusion n.imposture, fraud, sham, fake, humbug, counterfeit mean a thing made to seem other than it is.imposture applies to any situation in which a spurious object or performance is passed off as genuine.their claim of environmental concern is an imposture fraud usually implies a deliberate perversion of the truth.the diary was exposed as a fraud sham applies to fraudulent imitation of a real thing or action.condemned the election as a sham fake implies an imitation of or substitution for the genuine but does not necessarily imply dishonesty.these jewels are fakes; the real ones are in the vault humbug suggests elaborate pretense usually so flagrant as to be transparent.creating publicity by foisting humbugs on a gullible public counterfeit applies especially to the close imitation of something valuable.20-dollar bills that were counterfeits in 1750 |