guile vs humbug

guile and humbug both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
guile	Yes	No	No	No
humbug	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, humbug is a hyponym of guile; that is, humbug is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than guile:

guile: the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
humbug: something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

Other hyponyms of guile include dupery, fraud, fraudulence, hoax, put-on, jugglery.

guile (noun)	humbug (noun)
the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)	something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
the quality of being crafty	pretentious or silly talk or writing
shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception	communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive

guile (verb)	humbug (verb)
	trick or deceive