Hoaxes and quizzes; humbugery.
“[His] humble efforts at jocularity were chiefly confined to … bites and bams.”—Sir W. Scott: Guy Mannering, chap. 3.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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