humbugging

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) An act of one who humbugs (in all senses, for example, swindling, fighting, etc.).
 * 2) * 1760 November 1, Horace Mann &#91;&#93;, “Horace Mann on Sterne’s ‘Humbugging’”, quoted in Alan B. Howes, editor, Laurence Sterne: The Critical Heritage, London; New York, N.Y.:, 1971 (reprinted 1995), ISBN 978-0-415-13425-5 , page 104:
 * Extract from a letter to, written from Florence, in Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Sir Horace Mann, ed. W. S. Lewis, Warren Hunting Smith, and George L. Lam (1960), p. 446. You will laugh at me, I suppose, when I say I don't understand Tristram Shandy, because it was probably the intention of the author that nobody should. It seems to me humbugging, if I have a right notion of an art of talking or writing that has been invented since I left England.
 * 1) * 1859, J[ohn] H[enry] P[hillips] [i.e., ], “A Welsh Ode. Composed for the Eisteddfod.”, in Lyrics, and Philippics, [s.l.]: Middle Hill Press, 562485204 ; reprinted London: G. Norman, Maiden Lane,, 1864,  260327185 , page 27:
 * My Friends, and Dear Countrymen, do not discard, / The Song and advice of a Patriot Bard, / Who wants you to listen to Cambria's praise, / To keep up old Customs, and walk in old ways, / So sung in Humbugging, and Tomfoolery.