humbug
Nonsense; also a fraud or an impostor.
“All this talk of table-turning is humbug, and you know it.”
❦ Note: A favourite Victorian word for both nonsense and the nonsense-merchant; Dickens and Thackeray both loved it.
Nonsense; also a fraud or an impostor.
“All this talk of table-turning is humbug, and you know it.”
❦ Note: A favourite Victorian word for both nonsense and the nonsense-merchant; Dickens and Thackeray both loved it.