10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HUMBUGGABLE»
Discover the use of
humbuggable in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
humbuggable and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
I wondered. “Sure, Egan.” “But the photography's a fake,” he said, leaning far
forward. “Look, Egan,” said Mr. Knight, “we're kicking sawdust—circus living as
we entertain the spectators. They're humbuggable. They like being fooled, don't
you?
Patrick L. Mckiernan, 2006
Prudent, thrifty, selfish though he be, there are seasons in which he bursts upon
the world as the most reckless of spendthrifts, and the easiest, most good-
natured and most humbuggable of all two-legged animals. He walks out some
fine ...
James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch, Thomas Carlyle, 1853
3
Chambers English-Hindi Dictionary
fT*T ¡ft зМгтт чт want) ; — eat humble-pie TT -«UMI, TÏTT fcn^r, етчт ЧТЧТТ
humbug л. дт-ттг; ягчним, тсттт; 555ft, ¡prêt; ^ттт (гтат ттйт), 14, irftfi; v.r. <fc /□
чтят "tn; ттг тттт, b¡w тттт; tVit; 4rat чтттт, ттт ЧТТТТ; adj. humbuggable Ч~ТЯТ
...
Sureśa Avasthī, Indujā Avasthī, 1981
kanyana is the Zulu ' Boots,' whose wit is always too sharp for the man-eaters —
dolts who in the Zulu ' nursery tales' (given so pleasingly by Canon Callaway)
answer to the Norse trolls and to our always humbuggable giants. Once, on a ...
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, 1874
5
The life, travels, and adventures of Christopher Wagstaff (1762)
1 accidentally met with it the " other day under a different title, and upon perusing
it found it very much like Tristram, and a thing laugh- •* able enough for this
humbuggable ge- •« neration. So I soon resolved to re- " vise and correct it, and ...
6
Belgravia: A London Magazine
kanyana is the Zulu 'Boots,' whose wit is always too sharp for the man-eaters —
dolts who in the Zulu ' nursery tales' (given so pleasingly by Canon Callaway)
answer to the Norse trolls and to our always humbuggable giants. Once, on a ...
7
Writing African women: gender, popular culture, and ...
Revelling in the sheer joy of neologisms, Ebisike writes that the evils of patriarchy
'render women foolable, gullible, dupable, stuffable, delud- able, hoodwinkable,
bamboozable, humbuggable, born-yesterdayable, born-againable, etc' (p. iii).
8
English Words with Native Roots and with Greek, Latin, Or ...
Fanny Burney: writeable; oddment, sunderment; grubbery; uglify; fellowess,
gamestress; frettation, fussation. Wordsworth: enthrallment, needment: witchery;
songstress. Southey: mynheerify, quizzify; get-at-able, humbuggable, kiss- ...
George Albert Nicholson, 1916
9
Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: Fla to Hyps
My charity does not extend so far as to believe that any reasonable man (
humbuggable as the animal is) can have been so humbugged. 1826. The Fancy,
ii., 29. A contemporary writer of eminence some years ago termed such
exhibitions ...
John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley, 1893
The first novel in a new trilogy is a coming-of-age story tied to the lost Grail myth. It is the tale of young Nathan, and those who recognize his gift . . . people from other times and other worlds.
