flim-flam
Significat (Anglès)
- (countable, uncountable) Misinformation; bunkum; false information presented as true.
- (countable, uncountable) confidence game, con game
- (archaic, countable, uncountable) Table tennis.
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imbrogliarePronunciat com a (IPA)
/ˈflɪmflæm/
Etimologia (Anglès)
In summary
Ultimately a sound-symbolic reduplication, 1538 as noun, 1660 as verb. Perhaps from a dialectal word or North Germanic/Scandinavian; compare Old Norse flim (“lampoon, mockery”).
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