Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who humbugs.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who humbugs.

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  • noun dated One who humbugs; a cheat or swindler.

Etymologies

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humbug +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Watson, however, is himself a gold-plated hypocrite and humbugger.

    Archive 2007-10-28 2007

  • LEMON: When I'm not being a "bah, humbugger," I'm a good gift giver.

    CNN Transcript Dec 12, 2009 2009

  • Watson, however, is himself a gold-plated hypocrite and humbugger.

    Mr. Watson's Hypocrisy & Humbuggery 2007

  • Does not the pungent mephitis of hypocrisy once more effortlessly wheeze from this humbugger of a politician?

    Archive 2007-12-23 2007

  • Does not the pungent mephitis of hypocrisy once more effortlessly wheeze from this humbugger of a politician?

    Smuggo: A Straight Kind Of Catholic? 2007

  • But I like it after Thanksgiving, and I'm a grumbler, yes, a grumbler and a bah-humbugger about excessively early encroachment of the Yule.

    Surrender gregvaneekhout 2006

  • Being little conversant at that period with theatrical matters, and having no reason to doubt the honesty of my eloquent “humbugger,” I easily believed his fine promises.

    Memoirs of Robert-Houdin Houdin, Robert 1858

  • It stops curiously the flow of the current when the humbugger sees the intended humbuggee looking him, with a quizzical 'cuteness, in the eye. and seeming to say by the expression of his own, "Squire, do you see any thing green here?"

    The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches, 1853

  • "By this and that I'll strangle you, if you don't play this minute, you humbugger."

    Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes Samuel Lover 1832

  • So take your hamburger patty and place it between two other humbugger patties and add a slice of ham or something to replace the cheese.

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