humbuggery
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of humbuggery
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Reviewing Ancient Evenings, the critic Harold Bloom discussed what he called, quaintly, Mailer's "humbuggery and bumbuggery".
From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2014
In response to all the humbuggery, the anonymous organizers who run the website and help coordinate the event broke from their usual policy of not taking questions from the news media.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2013
The majority answered that, with all humbuggery discounted, a large number of successes remained which could not be accounted for by luck or chance.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. President, Mr. Hoover in this letter to Senator Borah reaches the sublimest height of epistolary humbuggery ever attained by man.
From Time Magazine Archive
After a little more humbuggery the bullet was handed back to be dropped into the muzzle of the gun.
From Three Boys in the Wild North Land by J. E. Laughlin
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