flam
Meaning
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- A freak or whim; an idle fancy.
- A falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/flæm/
Etymology
17th century; from flim-flam, itself perhaps from a dialectal word or Scandinavian; compare Old Norse flim (“lampoon, mockery”).
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