humbug

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

1. communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive
• Syn:
snake oil
• Hypernyms:
misrepresentation, deceit, deception
2. something intended to deceive;
deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
• Syn:
fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, put-on
• Derivationally related forms:
put on (for: put-on), hoax (for: hoax), dupe (for: dupery), fraudulent (for: fraudulence)
• Hypernyms:
trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan
• Hyponyms:
goldbrick
3. pretentious or silly talk or writing
• Syn:
baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool,
taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle
• Derivationally related forms:
twaddle (for: twaddle)
• Usage Domain:
slang, cant, jargon, lingo, argot,
patois, vernacular
• Hypernyms:
nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum

II - verb

trick or deceive
• Hypernyms:
deceive, lead on, delude, cozen
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s somebody

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, put-on, snake oil