flam

Significado (Inglês)

Noun

1. A freak or whim; an idle fancy.
2. A falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext

Verb

To deceive with a falsehood.

Verb

To play (notes as) a flam.

Sinônimos

faked document

blarney

deceive

fabrication

falsehood

adulation

forgery

humbug

trick

forged document

flattery

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/flæm/

Etimologia (Inglês)

17th century; from flim-flam, itself perhaps from a dialectal word or Scandinavian; compare Old Norse flim (“lampoon, mockery”).