humbugging

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈhʌmbʌɡɪŋ/    /ˈhəmˌbəɡɪŋ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An act of one who humbugs (in all senses, for example, swindling, fighting, etc.). countable,uncountable
    — Extract from a letter to Horace Walpole, written from Florence, in Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Sir Horace Mann, ed. W. S. Lewis, Warren Hunting Smith, and George L. Lam (1960), p. 446. […] You will laugh at me, I suppose, when I say I don't understand Tristram Shandy, because it was probably the intention of the author that nobody should. It seems to me humbugging, if I have a right notion of an art of talking or writing that has been invented since I left England.
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of humbug. form-of,gerund,participle,present

词形变化

humbuggings plural humbuging alternative

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English humbug
English -ing
English humbugging
From humbug + -ing.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English humbug
English -ing
English humbugging
From humbug + -ing.
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