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Encyclopedia Britannica



HUMBUG

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 876 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HOR-I25
HUMBUG , an imposture, sham, fraud. The word seems to have been originally applied to a
trick
  or hoax, and appears as a
slang
 
term
  about 1750. According to the New
English
  Dictionary, Ferdinando Killigrew's The Universal Jester, which contains the word in its sub-
title
  " a choice collection of many conceits .. . bonmots and humbugs," was published in 1754, not, as is often stated, in 1735-1740. The
principal
  passage in reference to the introduction of the word occurs in The Student, 1750-1751, ii. 41, where it is called " a word very much in vogue with the
people
  of
taste
  and fashion." The origin appears to have been unknown at that date. Skeat connects it (Etym.
Diet
 . 1898) with " hum," to murmur applause, hence flatter,
trick
 , cajole, and " bug," bogey, spectre, the word thus meaning a false alarm. Many fanciful conjectures have been made, e.g. from Irish uim-bog, soft copper, worthless as opposed to
sterling
  money; from " Hamburg," as the centre from which false coins came into England during the Napoleonic wars; and from the Italian uomo bugiardo, lying man.


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