Humbug

Humbug is a word used by Scrooge in a Christmas Carol. If something is a humbug it is false lies and intended to trick people.
Bah! Humbug!

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In Charles Dickens’s timeless Christmas classic A Christmas Carol, the main character, Ebeneezer Scrooge, says, ‘Bah! Humbug!

He only says it twice in the story, but it is a big part of a modern Christmas.


If something is a humbug, it is a lie intended to trick people.


It is Scrooge’s way of saying that he does not believe in Christmas and that it is all fake.

I would say very few people use the word humbug in daily speech, but they sure know where it comes from and what it means.

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is one of the most popular stories ever written in English.


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On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 76.  

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