flam at CMU American English spelling Of Explained:
[flæm]
flam at English => English (Moby Thesaurus II) Of Explained:
125 Moby Thesaurus words for "flam":
ballot-box stuffing, balls, baloney, beat, beguile of, bilk,
blague, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunco, bunk, bunkum, burn,
cardsharping, cheat, cheating, chisel, chouse, chouse out of,
claptrap, cock-and-bull story, cog, cog the dice, con, cozen,
cozenage, crap, crib, deception, defraud, diddle, diddling,
dishonesty, do in, do out of, dodge, euchre, exaggeration, eyewash,
fairy tale, fake, fakement, falsehood, falsity, farfetched story,
farrago, fib, fiction, finagle, fish story, fishy transaction,
fleece, flimflam, fob, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, fudge,
gammon, gerrymandering, ghost story, gouge, graft, grift, gull,
gyp, gyp joint, half-truth, have, hoax, hocus, hocus-pocus,
hogwash, hoke, hokum, hooey, humbug, humbuggery, illicit business,
imposition, imposture, jiggery-pokery, legal fiction, lie,
little white lie, mendacity, moonshine, mulct, pack the deal,
phony, pigeon, pious fiction, practice fraud upon, prevarication,
put-on, racket, rip-off, rook, scam, screw, sell, sell gold bricks,
sham, shave, shortchange, slight stretching, spoof,
stack the cards, stick, sting, story, swindle, take a dive, tale,
tall story, tall tale, taradiddle, thimblerig, throw a fight,
trumped-up story, untruth, victimize, white lie, yarn
Flam at English => English (Websters 1913) Of Explained:
Flam \Flam\ (fl[a^]m), n. [Cf. AS. {fle['a]m}, {fl[=ae]m},
flight. [root] 84 . Cf. {Flimflam}.]
A freak or whim; also, a falsehood; a lie; an illusory
pretext; deception; delusion. [Obs.]
A perpetual abuse and flam upon posterity. --South.
Flam \Flam\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flammed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Flamming}.]
To deceive with a falsehood. [Obs.]
God is not to be flammed off with lies. --South.
flam at English (WD) Of Explained:
Inter: also » flám
English
Etymology
17th century; from flim-flam,Flimflam / Claptrap, The Word Detective, 2009–04–13 itself perhaps from a dialectical word or Scandinavian; compare Old Norse Inter: term » flim||lampoon, mockery|lang=non.Inter: R:Online Etymology Dictionar » yNoun
Inter: en-nou » nTranslations
Inter: trans-top » an illusory pretext; deception; delusionInter: trans-mi » d
Inter: trans-botto » m
Verb
Inter: en-verb » flams|flamming|flammedTranslations
Inter: trans-top » To deceive with a falsehood.Inter: trans-mi » d
Inter: trans-botto » m
References
Anagrams
* FMLACatalan
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Inter: ca-noun » mVolapük
Noun
Inter: vo-nou » nDeclension
Inter: vo-decl-nou » nTranslation: de » flam
Translation: eo » flam
Translation: fr » flam
Translation: ko » flam
Translation: io » flam
Translation: lt » flam
Translation: mg » flam
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Translation: pl » flam
Translation: ta » flam
Translation: te » flam
Translation: tr » flam
Translation: vi » flam
Translation: vo » flam
Translation: zh » flam
flám at English (WD) Of Explained:
==Czech==
Noun
Inter: cs-noun » g=fDeclension
Inter: cs-decl-noun-auto » mi|fl|á|mTranslation: fr » flám
Flam at English (WD) Of Explained:
==Luxembourgish==