Humbug vs Mislead - What's the difference?
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A hoax, prank or jest
A fraud or sham
A fraudster or cheat
* 1903 , , Act III:
*:He means that he has sold out to the parliamentary humbugs and the bourgeoisie. Compromise! that is his faith.
(British) A type of chewy sweet (candy)
nonsense!
* 1843 , ,
To play a trick on.
To cheat, swindle.
(literally) To lead astray, in a false direction.
To deceive by telling lies or otherwise giving a false impression.
To deceptively trick into something wrong.
To accidentally or intentionally confuse.
Humbug is a related term of mislead.
As verbs the difference between humbug and mislead
is that humbug is to play a trick on while mislead is (literally) to lead astray, in a false direction.As a noun humbug
is a hoax, prank or jest.As an interjection humbug
is nonsense!.humbug
English
Noun
(wikipedia humbug) (en noun)Interjection
(en interjection)- ‘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 !’
Verb
Derived terms
* humbugger * humbuggeryUsage notes
* The spellings (humbuging) and (humbuged) exist, but are not nearly so common as (humbugging) and (humbugged).References
* OED 2nd edition 1989 * * ----mislead
English
Verb
(transitive)- ''The preacher elaborated Satan's ways to mislead us into sin