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HUMBUG

Humbug is old English for a cheat, a confidence trick, a hoax, a deception. Hence in Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' Scrooge refers to Christmas as 'humbug' he means Christmas is a confidence trick.
Humbug is old English for false pretence.
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