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▪ I. flam, n.1 and a.|flæm|
Also 7 flamm(e.
[See flam v.]
A. n.
†1. A fanciful notion, caprice, whim. Obs.
a1625Fletcher Hum. Lieutenant iv. i, Presently With some new flam or other..She takes her chamber. 1672Eachard Hobbes' State Nat. Lett. 20 It may be convenient for you to call this..a flam, a whisker, a caprice.
†2. A fanciful composition; a conceit. Obs.
a1637B. Jonson Underwoods, Execr. Vulcan 36 Anagrams, Or Eteosticks, or your finer flams Of eggs and halberts. 1725Swift Let. to Pope Wks. 1761 VIII. xii. 46 Philips writes little flams (as Lord Leicester called those sort of verses) on Miss Carteret. 1755Gray Let. to Wharton 9 Mar., Must they too come out in the shape of little six⁓penny flams, dropping one after another, till Mr. Dodsley thinks fit to collect them..into a pretty volume?
3. A sham story, fabrication, falsehood; a piece of deception, a trick.
1632Sherwood, A flam, or a flimflam tale, riotte. 1637J. Pocklington Altare Chr. 22 The Lincolneshire minister can devise no flamme (as he speaks) to shift off these..cleare places in Origen. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. i. ii. §9. 12 His Flamens and Arch-Flamens, seeme..Flamms and Arch-Flamms, even notorious Falshoods. 1760Foote Minor ii. Wks. 1799 I. 257 Had the flam been fact, your behaviour was natural enough. 1826J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 5 And all that comes after a flim and a flam. 1888D. C. Murray Danger. Catspaw 164 The letter's a flam.
b. Humbug, deception; flattery, ‘blarney’.
1692South Conscience Serm. 1737 II. xii. 443 All pretences to the contrary are nothing but cant and cheat, flam and delusion. 1825Brockett N. Country Wds., Flam, flattery bordering on a lie. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 367 ‘There are very few who take money; indeed they profess to take none at all. But that is all flam’, said my informant. 1878Cumbld. Gloss., Flam, flattery—equivalent to blarney.
†B. adj. [Developed from an attrib. use of the n.; cf. fancy adj. C.] That is intended to deceive; counterfeit, fictitious, sham. Obs.
1678–9C. Hatton 18 Mar. in Hatton Corr. (1878) I. 184 His Loppe had been impos'd on by a flamm report. 1692Contriv. S. Blackhead in Select. Harl. Misc. (1793) 516 She addeth a flam story, that she had got his hand by corrupting one of the letter-carriers. 1692R. L'Estrange Josephus' Antiq. xvi. vi, He could not so conveniently impose upon his Father with flam Stories against his Brothers.
Hence † flam-flirt int. (cf. flim-flam-flirt), nonsense.
1590R. W. 3 Lords & Ladies B iij b, Fly, flam flurt: why? Can a flie doo hurt?
▪ II. flam, n.2|flæm|
[Prob. echoic.]
(See quot. 1819.)
1796Grose Dict. Vulg. Tongue, Flam, a single stroke on a drum. 1819Rees Cycl. XII. s.v. Drum, The Flam is a beat made by the two sticks striking almost at the same instant on the head, but so as to be heard separately. 1848–9in Southey Comm.-pl. Bk. IV. 434 In beating the drum there is the roll, the swell, the flam and the ruffle. 1876in Voyle Milit. Dict. (ed. 3). 1931G. Jacob Orchestral Technique vii. 71 Very characteristic of the side-drum are the strokes known as ‘the flam’ and the ‘drag’.
▪ III. flam, n.3|flæm|
[Of uncertain origin; possibly identical with flambe flag, iris; ‘the flams’ may have been used for the place where these plants grow, and the meaning of the sing. may have been wrongly deduced.]
(See quots.)
1725Hearne R. Brunne's Chron. Gloss. s.v. Flom, It is withall remarkable, that low, watry, rushy places are frequently call'd Flams by persons..in and about Oxford. 1791Rep. Navig. Thames & Isis Estimate 3 The Flam or Close to be cut through, and Gangways to the Bridge for the Towing-Horses. 1872H. W. Taunt Map of Thames p. x, The reedy flams which line its left bank.
▪ IV. † flam, n.4 Obs.—1
? Short for flambeau.
1755T. Amory Memoirs 449 We had but one flam left. An accident might likewise extinguish it, and then what could we do?
▪ V. flam, n.5|flæm|
Variant of flan n.1
1711R. Sibbald Descr. Ork. & Zetl. ix. 36 Ronis-voe..could Harbour many Ships, were it free from the Flams of Wind, which come from the Mountain. 1820St. Kathleen III. 110 It blows squally, as the flams o' reek flappin' doun the lum may tell ye. 1903Northern Ensign 28 July 2/1 'Er's a flam o' win' doon 'e shimley.
▪ VI. flam, v.|flæm|
[Belongs to flam n.1; if sense 1 below be not a different word, the vb. is the earlier. Cf. flim-flam and flamfew, of either of which flam may be a shortened form.]
†1. trans. ? To counterfeit, ‘mock’. Obs.
c1500Ratis Raving etc. 3687 Flam not the flouris at wyll faid, To mend hir mak at god has maid.
2. To deceive by a sham story or trick, or by flattery; also, to flam off, up. Obs. exc. dial. or U.S.
1637Heywood Dial. ii. Wks. 1874 VI. 112 You do not well to jeere and flam Me. a1658Ford, etc. Witch Edmonton ii. ii, Was this your cunning?—and then flam me off With an old witch. 1660Bond Scut. Reg. 188 Damnable Usurpers..flaming the people in the mouth with a tale. 1692South Serm. (1697) 465 A God, who is not to be flamm'd off with Lyes. 1760C. Johnston Chrysal (1822) II. 296 No such tricks for me. I am not to be flammed so neither. 1837–40Haliburton Clockm. (1862) 153 Few would accept it..without some sponsible man to indorse it, that warn't given to flammin. 1876Whitby Gloss., Flam up, to cajole. 1884Chesh. Gloss., Flam, to humbug, or deceive. ‘He's only flammin.’
▪ VII. flam
var. of flamm, flan. |