Synonyms of the word

humbug

• n. (countable, slang) A hoax, jest, or prank.
• n. (countable, uncountable, slang) A fraud or sham (countable); hypocrisy (uncountable).
• n. (countable, slang) A fraudster, cheat, or hypocrite.
• n. (uncountable, slang) Nonsense.
• n. (countable, Britain) A type of hard sweet (candy), usually peppermint flavoured with a striped pattern.
• n. (US, countable, slang) Anything complicated, offensive, troublesome, unpleasant or worrying; a misunderstanding,…
• n. (US, countable, African American Vernacular, slang) A fight.
• n. (countable, US, African American Vernacular, slang, dated) A gang.
• n. (countable, US, crime, slang) A false arrest on trumped-up charges.
• interj. (slang) Balderdash!, nonsense!, rubbish!
• v. (slang) To play a trick on someone, to cheat, to swindle, to deceive.
• v. (US, African American Vernacular, slang) To fight; to act tough.
• v. (slang, obsolete) To waste time talking.

baloney

• n. (countable) A type of sausage; bologna.
• n. (uncountable, chiefly US, slang) Nonsense.

bilgewater

• n. (nautical) Water which collects in the bilges of a ship.
• n. (slang) Stupid talk or writing; nonsense.

boloney

• n. Alternative form of bologna.
• n. Alternative form of baloney.

bosh

• n. (chiefly Britain) Nonsense.
• interj. (chiefly Britain) An expression of disbelief or annoyance.
• n. The lower part of a blast furnace, between the hearth and the stack.
• n. (Britain, chiefly Norfolk, slang, archaic) A figure.
• interj. (Britain) An expression of speedy and satisfactory completion of a simple or straightforward task.

bunk

• n. One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
• n. (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
• n. (military) A cot.
• n. (US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
• n. (US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
• v. To occupy a bunk.
• v. To provide a bunk.
• n. (slang) Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
• adj. (slang) defective, broken, not functioning properly.
• v. (Britain) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk…
• v. (dated) To expel from a school.

chicane

• n. (road transport, motor racing) A temporary barrier, or serpentine curve, on a vehicular path, especially…
• n. (bridge) The holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself. It counts as simple honours.
• n. Chicanery.
• v. (intransitive) To use chicanery, tricks or subterfuge.
• v. (transitive) To deceive.

chicanery

• n. Deception by use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.
• n. (countable, law) A slick performance by a lawyer.

cozen

• v. (archaic) To cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way.

deceit

• n. An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
• n. An act of deceiving someone.
• n. (uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive.
• n. (law) The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or…

deceive

• v. To trick or mislead.

deception

• n. An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead someone into believing a lie or inaccuracy.

delude

• v. (transitive) To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To frustrate or disappoint.

drool

• v. to secrete saliva in anticipation of food.
• v. to secrete saliva upon seeing something nice.
• v. to talk nonsense.
• n. saliva trickling from the mouth.

dupery

• n. The act or practice of duping; the condition of being deceived.

fraud

• n. (law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
• n. Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.
• n. The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
• n. A person who performs any such trick.
• n. (obsolete) A trap or snare.
• v. (obsolete) To defraud.

fraudulence

• n. The condition of being fraudulent.

guile

• n. (uncountable) Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
• n. Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
• v. to deceive, to beguile.

hoax

• v. (transitive) To deceive (someone) by making them believe something which has been maliciously or mischievously…
• n. Anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick.

hokum

• n. Meaningless nonsense with an outward appearance of being impressive and legitimate.

meaninglessness

• n. The state of lacking meaning; the quality of being meaningless.
• n. Anything that is meaningless.

misrepresentation

• n. Erroneous or false representation; an unfair or dishonest account or exposition; a false statement: as,…
• n. Incorrect or unfaithful representation in the capacity of agent or official representative, such as of…
• n. In map-making, faultiness in a map-projection, estimated with regard to its unequal scale in different…

nonsense

• n. Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or seem to have no meaning.
• n. An untrue statement.
• n. Something foolish.
• n. (literature) A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by…
• n. (biology) A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
• v. To make nonsense of.
• v. To attempt to dismiss as nonsense.
• v. (intransitive) To joke around, to waste time.
• adj. (biochemistry) Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become…
• adj. nonsensical.

nonsensicality

• n. (uncountable) The state or condition of being nonsensical.
• n. (countable) A nonsensical belief, remark, etc.

put-on

• n. A deception, hoax, or practical joke.

shenanigan

• n. (countable) A deceitful confidence trick, or mischief causing discomfort or annoyance.
• n. (rare) singular of shenanigans.

taradiddle

• n. Alternative form of tarradiddle.

tarradiddle

• n. A trivial lie, a fib.
• n. Silly talk or writing; humbug.

tommyrot

• n. nonsense, rot.

tosh

• n. (Britain, obsolete slang, uncountable) Copper; items made of copper.
• n. (chiefly Britain, uncommon slang, uncountable) Valuables retrieved from sewers and drains.
• n. (chiefly Britain, slang, uncountable) Rubbish, trash, (now) especially in the sense of nonsense, bosh,…
• n. (Britain, archaic school slang, countable) A bath or foot pan.
• n. (cricket, slang, pejorative, uncountable) Easy bowling.
• n. (Britain, humorous slang, uncountable) Used as a form of address.
• v. (Britain, obsolete slang) To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls.
• v. (chiefly Britain, uncommon slang) To search for valuables in sewers.
• v. (Britain, archaic school slang) To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath".
• adj. (Scotland, obsolete) Tight.
• adj. (Scotland) Neat, clean; tidy, trim.
• adj. (Scotland) Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate.
• adv. (Scotland) Toshly: neatly, tidily.
• v. (Scotland) To make ‘tosh’: to tidy, to trim.
• n. (Britain, obsolete slang, countable) A half-crown coin; its value.
• n. (Britain, obsolete slang, countable) A crown coin; its value.
• n. (Britain, archaic slang, uncountable) Any money, particularly pre-decimalization British coinage.

trickery

• n. (uncountable) Deception or underhanded behavior.
• n. (uncountable) The art of dressing up; imposture.
• n. (uncountable) Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.
• n. (countable) An instance of deception, underhanded behavior, dressing up, imposture, artifice, etc.

twaddle

• n. (uncountable) Empty or silly idle talk or writing; nonsense, rubbish.
• n. (countable) One who twaddles; a twaddler.
• v. To talk or write nonsense; to prattle.

wile

• n. (usually in the plural) A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice.
• v. To entice or lure.
• v. Archaic form of while, "to pass the time".