humbug vs reveal

humbug

noun
  • A hoax, jest, or prank. 

  • Nonsense. 

  • A type of hard sweet (candy), usually peppermint flavoured with a striped pattern. 

  • A fight. 

  • A fraud or sham; (uncountable) hypocrisy. 

  • A false arrest on trumped-up charges. 

  • The piglet of the wild boar. 

  • A cheat, fraudster, or hypocrite. 

  • Anything complicated, offensive, troublesome, unpleasant or worrying; a misunderstanding, especially if trivial. 

intj
  • Balderdash!, nonsense!, rubbish! 

verb
  • To fight; to act tough. 

  • To play a trick on someone, to cheat, to swindle, to deceive. 

reveal

noun
  • A revelation; an uncovering of what was hidden in the scene or story. 

  • The outer side of a window or door frame. 

verb
  • To communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction. 

  • To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden. 

How often have the words humbug and reveal occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )