Humbug

Humbug in the sense of "hoax, jest" is first attested in 1751 in student slang. Its etymology is unknown. Its present meaning as an exclamation is closer to "nonsense, gibberish", while a humbug means "a fraud, an impostor".

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The exclamation "Bah, humbug!" has become associated with Ebenezer Scrooge and a dismissive attitude towards Christmas (characterizing the holiday itself as a fraud). Elsewhere in fiction, Dorothy denounces the Wizard of Oz as a humbug.

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Hoax: A hoax is an attempt to trick an audience into believing that something false is real. Generally there is some material object involved, which is actually a forgery. Unlike a fraud or con (which usually has an audience of one or a few), which are made for illicit financial or material gain, or a fra...

Slang: Slang is the non-standard use of words in a language of a particular social group, and sometimes the creation of new words or importation of words from another language. It is a type of neologism. Slang can be described as deviating away from standard language use. Slang functions in two ways; the c...

Nonsense: :If you are looking for "nonsense" as used in Wikipedia, see ....

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