flim-flam

Significado (Inglés)

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

Conceptos

chasquear

engañar

ardid

embaucar

hacer bromas

dar un chasco

jugar una broma

Sinónimos

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

Traducciones

Betrug

Quatsch

Schwindel

Trick

Bauernfängerei

fauler Trick

avoir

renard

🦊

escroquerie

imbrogliare

ingannare

abbindolare

accalappiare

circuire

⭕

raggirare

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈflɪmflæm/

Etimología (Inglés)

Cognado con nórdico antiguo: 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”).