flim-flam

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

1. (countable, uncountable) Misinformation; bunkum; false information presented as true.
2. (countable, uncountable) confidence game, con game
3. (archaic, countable, uncountable) Table tennis.

Συνώνυμα

trick

play tricks

pull a fast one on

fob

fox

🦊

humbug

play a trick on

play a joke on

bamboozle

gip

goldbrick

gouge

gyp

hoax

hoodwink

bilk

mulct

nonsense

rook

screw

shark

🦈

short-change

take in

chisel

whipsaw

cozen

deception

fiddle

finagle

gypsophila

Μεταφράσεις

Betrug

Quatsch

Schwindel

Trick

Bauernfängerei

fauler Trick

avoir

renard

🦊

escroquerie

imbrogliare

ingannare

abbindolare

accalappiare

circuire

⭕

raggirare

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/ˈflɪmflæm/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Συγγενές με Παλαιά Νορβηγικά: flim

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”).