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Definition of Humbuggers
1. humbugger [n] - See also: humbugger
Lexicographical Neighbors of Humbuggers
Literary usage of Humbuggers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"But why, honest friends, should we ramble and roam, To look for humbuggers so
distant from home ? Poor Ireland, as well as her neighbours, of late Has begun ..."
2. The Life of Benjamin Disraeli: Earl of Beaconsfield by William Flavelle Monypenny, George Earle Buckle (1914)
"They are tired of rhetorical humbuggers in speaking and writing, such as those
for the most part are who occupy our Senate with palaver and our Sovereign ..."
3. Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz by Carl Schurz (1913)
"These are your boasted revolutionary sires, no longer heroes and sages, but
accomplished humbuggers and hypocrites, who said one thing and meant another; ..."
4. Some Account of the English Stage: From the Restoration in 1660 to 1830 by John Genest (1832)
"The Biters were not unlike the humbuggers, and a fair subject for ridicule—the
best story about biting is told in the Spectator—a condemned felon sold his ..."
5. Life and Correspondence of John A. Quitman, Major-general, U.S.A., and by John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne (1860)
"There are your boasted Revolutionary sires, no longer heroes and sages, but
accomplished humbuggers and hypocrites, who said one thing and meant another; ..."
6. The British Essayists edited by Alexander Chalmers (1808)
"... the Gothic humbuggers, and those who " nick-name God's creatures," and call
a man a cabbage, a crab, a queer cub, an odd fish, and an unaccountable ..."
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