humbuggery

English

Etymology

humbug +‎ -ery

Noun

humbuggery (countable and uncountable; plural humbuggeries)

  1. (dated) trickery; deception

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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Last modified on 9 February 2013, at 09:00