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Haettu sana löytyi näillä lähdekielillä:
| Kieli | Käännökset |
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| espanja | tontería, disparate, farsa, bobería, fraude;trampa;embrollo, tramposo; embaucador |
| italia | imbroglio, fandonia |
| ranska | blague, baliverne, charlatanisme |
| ruotsi | dra vid näsan, bedra, bedrägeri, humbug, bedragare |
| saksa | Humbug |
| suomi | pila, kuje, huijaus, humpuuki, huijari, sutki, humpuukki |
| unkari | átverés, humbug, svihák, maszlag |
| venäjä | надувательство (naduvatelstvo) |
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- (countable, slang) A hoax, jest, or prank.
- (countable, slang) A fraud or sham; (uncountable) hypocrisy.
- (countable, slang) A cheat, fraudster, or hypocrite.
- (uncountable, slang) Nonsense.
- (countable, British) A type of hard sweet (candy), usually peppermint flavoured with a striped pattern.
- (US, countable, slang) Anything complicated, offensive, troublesome, unpleasant or worrying; a misunderstanding, especially if trivial.
- (US, countable, African-American Vernacular, slang) A fight.
- (countable, US, African-American Vernacular, slang, dated) A gang.
- (countable, US, crime, slang) A false arrest on trumped-up charges.
- (countable, slang, perhaps by extension) The piglet of the wild boar.
Huudahdus
- (slang) Balderdash!, nonsense!, rubbish!
Verbi
- (slang) To play a trick on someone, to cheat, to swindle, to deceive.
- (US, African-American Vernacular, slang) To fight; to act tough.
- (slang, obsolete) To waste time talking.
Esimerkit
- He means that he has sold out to the parliamentary humbugs and the bourgeoisie. Compromise! that is his faith.
- ‘A Merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!’ cried a cheerful voice. It was the voice of Scrooge’s nephew, who came upon him so quickly that this was the first intimation he had of his approach.
- ‘Bah!’ said Scrooge, ‘Humbug!’
- —"A Merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!" cried a cheerful voice. It was the voice of Scrooge’s nephew, who came upon him so quickly that this was the first intimation he had of his approach. — "Bah!" said Scrooge, "Humbug!"
Taivutusmuodot
(countable, slang) A hoax, jest, or prank.
Panorama of Humbug. No. 1, making fun of Phineas T. Barnum and Jenny Lind LCCN 2004-665373
(slang) Balderdash!, nonsense!, rubbish!
Humbugging, or raising the Devil, 1800. Rowlandson's humbugging depicts the public as a credulous simpleton being distracted by a display of "the miraculous", the better to have his pockets picked.