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▪ I. ˈblaflum, n. Sc.
Also bleflum, blephum, blawflum, blafum.
Deception, imposition, hoax.
a1661Rutherford Lett. (1765) i. ii. (Jam.) Many..when they go to take out their faith, they take out a fair nothing..a bleflume. a1662R. Baillie Lett. (1775) I. 201 (Jam.) All his act was but a blephum. 1788E. Picken Poems 63 (Jam.) Fine blaw-flums o' teas That grow abroad. 1880Patterson Antrim & Down Gloss. (E.D.S.), Blaflum, blafum, nonsense; something said to mislead.
Hence blaflumry, blaeflummery.
1819A. Balfour Campbell I. 328 (Jam.) A' that blaeflummery that's makin sic a haliballoo in the warld.
▪ II. ˈblaflum, v. trans. Sc.
To impose upon.
1728Ramsay Wks. (1848) I. 221 The chair Which bears him to blaflum the fair. |