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Humbug vs Pretentiousness - What's the difference?

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Humbug is a related term of pretentiousness.


As nouns the difference between humbug and pretentiousness

is that humbug is a hoax, prank or jest while pretentiousness is the quality of being pretentious.

As an interjection humbug

is nonsense!.

As a verb humbug

is to play a trick on.

humbug

English

Noun

(wikipedia humbug) (en noun)
  • 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)

    • Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • nonsense!
  • * 1843 , ,
    • ‘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

  • To play a trick on.
  • To cheat, swindle.

    • Derived terms

    * humbugger * humbuggery

    Usage notes

    * The spellings (humbuging) and (humbuged) exist, but are not nearly so common as (humbugging) and (humbugged).

    References

    * OED 2nd edition 1989 * * ----

    pretentiousness

    English

    Noun

  • The quality of being pretentious.