humbug vs squeal

humbug

noun
  • The piglet of the wild boar. 

  • Nonsense. 

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

  • A hoax, jest, or prank. 

  • A fight. 

  • A fraud or sham; (uncountable) hypocrisy. 

  • A false arrest on trumped-up charges. 

  • 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. 

squeal

noun
  • The cry of a pig. 

  • A high-pitched sound, such as the scream of a child or a female person, or noisy worn-down brake pads. 

verb
  • To make a squealing noise. 

  • To scream with a shrill, prolonged sound. 

  • To give sensitive information about someone to a third party; to rat on someone. 

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