Thursday, March 29, 2012

Humbug

There's a word for your blog--humbug!" snapped Susan in an email a couple months ago.

And what a great word!  It means trickery, deceit, nonsense played on the unsuspecting.  Mostly a noun, it call also be a verb.

And what a great mystery, too.  No one knows where it came from--though it's alleged to be student slang, British origin....  A bit of buggery, perhaps?

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