noun
- a person who practices deception or fraud; a charlatan or impostor
Usage: informal; often used to describe someone who makes false claims or misleads others
Examples
- The fortune teller turned out to be a humbugger who preyed on desperate people.
- He exposed the humbugger's fake credentials during the interview.
- That salesman is a real humbugger—his product doesn't work at all.
- The humbugger promised miraculous results but delivered nothing.
- She called him a humbugger for claiming expertise he didn't possess.