In Charles Dickens’s 1843 story A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge exclaims “Bah ... scale—a humbug any way you slice it. The only way Scrooge doesn’t use the word humbug is in ...
Relax. I know that Christmas message time is over. “Bah Humbug!” Humbug = Balderdash; Nonsense; Rubbish. Scrooge loved the word. In A Christmas Carol, Scrooge uses ‘humbug’ 18 times in the first ...