Definitions
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- v. Simple past tense and past participle of humbug.
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Examples
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He that is POLITICALLY humbugged, which is divisible into
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He always attributed his success to his having "humbugged" the public by this unique method of advertising his blacking in Egypt!
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The secretary was not "humbugged," nor did Lumley expect he should be.
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The Battle: Blucher had occupied Ligny and was awaiting Wellington only to be told that the duke was himself out of position (he had been "humbugged" to quote Wellesley).
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Many journalists and others humbugged about the absurdity of a hapless suit that sought damages for a straightforward news piece from an editor who was a high-school sophomore when the original 2006 story ran.
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Begging for photographs of bomb damage inflicted by the RAF on Germany, he concluded urgently that “to a country which is used to being humbugged by its press, and who knows that it is being humbugged by its press, only seeing is believing.”
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One man on the street refused to be humbugged by the ad.
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And here I was, humbugged to hell and beyond, being kidnapped in the train of this deceitful rebel bitch - or was I wrong, was there some explanation after all?
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Oh, she'd tricked me into his clutches, right enough - but she'd humbugged him, too, whoring away like a demented succubus while he was biting his nails over her supposed virtue.
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Christmas came early at the box office this weekend as A Christmas Carol bah humbugged its way to $31 million in ticket sales and a first place finish, ahead of newcomers The Men Who Stare at Goats ($13.3 million in second) and The Fourth Kind ($12.5 million in fourth).
Box Office Breakdown: No Lumps of Coal for Christmas, Precious Explodes
yarb commented on the word humbugged
Jack is a slave aboard ship; but still he has many opportunities of thwarting and balking his master. When there is danger or necessity, or when he is well used, no one can work faster than he; but the instant he feels that he is kept at work for nothing, or, as the nautical phrase is, "humbugged," no sloth could make less headway.
- Richard Henry Dana Jr., Two Years Before the Mast, ch. 12
September 6, 2008