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Barnumize
Barnumize, v. (ˈbɑːnəmaɪz) [f. Barnum + -ize.] To exhibit with a lavish display of puffing advertisements. Barnumism, exaggerated advertising or display, boastful ‘tall talk.’1851 W. B. Hodgson in Life vi. (1883) 87 Barnumised and puffed as Napoleon has been, he is not popular. 1852 Blackw. Mag. LXX... Oxford English Dictionary
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Barnum (ˈbɑːnəm) [The name of Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810–91), a pushing American show-proprietor.] 1. Humbug, nonsense; showmanship.1856 G. D. Brewerton War in Kansas 17 He believed the whole affair to be a ‘Barnum’—alias humbug, of the most unmitigated kind. a 1914 Joyce Stephen Hero (1944) xxi. 1... Oxford English Dictionary
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