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humbugsnounpl. of humbug one who makes false claims of identity or expertiseone humbug after another claimed to be the miraculously surviving daughter of the Russian czar charlatans, fakers, fakes, fakirs, frauds, hoaxers, impostors(or imposters), mountebanks, phonies(also phoneys), pretenders, quacks, quacksalvers, ringers, shams copycats, imitators, impersonators, mimicsactors, bluffers, counterfeiters, deceivers, dissemblers, duper, feigners, misleaders, operators, trickstersposeurscozeners, defrauders, dodgers, fraudsters(chiefly British), scammers, scamsters, sharpers, sharpies, skinners, swindlers aces, adepts, authorities, crackerjacks(also crackajacks), experts, maestros(or maestri), masters, past masters, professionals, virtuosos(or virtuosi), whizzes, wizards humbugsverbpresent tense third-person singular of humbugto cause to believe what is untruehumbugged into believing that the bones were the skeleton of a prehistoric human being bamboozles, beguiles, bluffs, buffaloes, burns, catches, cons, cozens, deceives, deludes, dupes, fakes out, fools, gaffs, gammons, gulls, has, has on(chiefly British), hoaxes, hoodwinks, hornswoggles, juggles, misguides, misinforms, misleads, snookers, snows, spoofs, strings along, suckers, sucks in, takes in, tricks kids, puts on, teasesbleeds, cheats, chisels, defrauds, diddles, euchres, fleeces, flimflams, gyps, hustles, mulcts, rooks, shortchanges, skins, squeezes, sticks, stings, swindles does a number on, leads one down the garden path(also leads one up the garden path), pulls one's leg, pulls the wool over one's eyes undeceives debunks, exposes, reveals, shows up, uncloaks, uncovers, unmasksdiscloses, divulges, tells, unveilsdisabuses, disenchants, disillusions |