flim-flamn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈflɪmflam/, U.S.

/ˈflɪmˌflæm/

Forms: Also 1500s ? flym flawe, 1600s frim fram.

Etymology: One of the many onomatopoeic reduplications with vowel variation expressive of contempt; compare fidfad, skimble-skamble, whimwham. Possibly based on a Scandinavian word which may have existed in some English dialects; compare Old Norse flim a lampoon, flimska mockery, flimta to flout.

A. n.

1. A piece of nonsense or idle talk; a trifle, a conceit. Cf. flam n.¹ 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] > instance of

flim-flam1546

delirium1599

bull1640

nonsense1646

fandango1841

fiddlededee1843

flapdoodle1878

1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. x. sig. Ciii She maketh ernest matters of euery flymflam.

1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet E ij b Trusse vp thy packet of flim flams, & roage to some countrey Faire, or read it among boyes in the belfrie.

1638 R. West To Pious Memory T. Randolph in T. Randolph Poems sig. ***2^v Such Iig-like flim-flams being got to make The Rabble laugh.

1885 Liverpool Daily Post 11 May 8/7 Grossmith..crowds his picture with all kinds of flim-flams of the drawing-room.

2. A paltry attempt at deception; a contemptible trick or pretence; a piece of humbug. Cf. flam n.¹ 3.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > a trick, deception

wrenchc888

swikec893

braida1000

craftOE

wile1154

crookc1175

trokingc1175

guile?c1225

hocket1276

blink1303

errorc1320

guileryc1330

sleightc1340

knackc1369

deceitc1380

japec1380

gaudc1386

syllogism1387

mazec1390

mowa1393

train?a1400

trantc1400

abusionc1405

creekc1405

trickc1412

trayc1430

lirtc1440

quaint?a1450

touch1481

pawka1522

false point?1528

practice1533

crink1534

flim-flamc1538

bobc1540

fetcha1547

abuse1551

block1553

wrinklec1555

far-fetch?a1562

blirre1570

slampant1577

ruse1581

forgery1582

crank1588

plait1589

crossbite1591

cozenage1592

lock1598

quiblin1605

foist1607

junt1608

firk1611

overreach?1615

fob1622

ludification1623

knick-knacka1625

flam1632

dodge1638

gimcrack1639

fourbe1654

juggle1664

strategy1672

jilt1683

disingenuity1691

fun1699

jugglementa1708

spring1753

shavie1767

rig?1775

deception1794

Yorkshire bite1795

fakement1811

fake1829

practical1833

deceptivity1843

tread-behind1844

fly1861

schlenter1864

Sinonism1864

racket1869

have1885

ficelle1890

wheeze1903

fast one1912

roughie1914

spun-yarn trick1916

fastie1931

phoney baloney1933

fake-out1955

okey-doke1964

mind-fuck1971

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [noun] > instance of

braida1000

fraudc1374

mock1523

brogue1537

flim-flamc1538

imposture1548

lie1560

cozening1576

smoke-hole1580

gullery1598

gull1600

cog1602

coggery1602

fraudulency1630

imposition1632

cheat1649

fourbery1650

prestige1656

sham1677

crimp1684

bite1711

humbug1750

swindle1778

hookum-snivey1781

shim-sham1797

gag1805

intake1808

racket1819

wooden nutmeg1822

sell1838

caper1851

skin game1879

Kaffir bargain1899

swizzle1913

swizz1915

put-on1919

ready-up1924

rort1926

jack-up1945

c1538 in State Papers (1834) II. iii. 552 He and his fellawes were sent hither..but for a flim flawe to stoppe the ymagination of the Kynge and Counsaile in that behalf.

1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 14 He gave me this flim flam, that I had persuadid him sumwhat.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. (1609) vi. xvi. 227 The Dictatour commanded him to leave off these foolish flimflams & trifling shifts.

1663 A. Cowley Cutter of Coleman-St. iv. iv. 43 I'le ha' none of his Flim-flams, and his May-be's.

1692 ‘J. Curate’ Sc. Presbyterian Eloquence iii. 110 Criticks with their frim frams and whytie whaties.

1805 D'Israeli (title) Flim-Flams, or the Life and Errors of my Uncle.

1880 B. Disraeli Endymion III. xxiii. 226 All these habitual flim-flams are, in general, the airy creatures of inaccuracy and exaggeration.

3. collective. Nonsense, rubbish; humbug, deception.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun]

magged talea1387

moonshine1468

trumperyc1485

foolishness1531

trash1542

baggage1545

flim-flam1570

gear1570

rubbisha1576

fiddle-faddle1577

stuff1579

fible-fable1581

balductum1593

pill1608

nonsense1612

skimble-skamble1619

porridge1642

mataeology1656

fiddle-come-faddle1663

apple sauce1672

balderdash1674

flummery1749

slang1762

all my eye1763

diddle-daddle1778

(all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781

twaddle1782

blancmange1790

fudge1791

twiddle-twaddle1798

bothering1803

fee-faw-fum1811

slip-slop1811

nash-gab1816

flitter-tripe1822

effutiation1823

bladderdash1826

ráiméis1828

fiddlededee1843

pickles1846

rot1846

kelter1847

bosh1850

flummadiddle1850

poppycock1852

Barnum1856

fribble-frabble1859

kibosh1860

skittle1864

cod1866

Collyweston1867

punk1869

slush1869

stupidness1873

bilge-water1878

flapdoodle1878

tommyrot1880

ruck1882

piffle1884

flamdoodle1888

razzmatazz1888

balls1889

pop1890

narrischkeit1892

tosh1892

footle1894

tripe1895

crap1898

bunk1900

junk1906

quatsch1907

bilge1908

B.S.1912

bellywash1913

jazz1913

wash1913

bullshit?1915

kid-stakes1916

hokum1917

bollock1919

bullsh1919

bushwa1920

noise1920

bish-bosh1922

malarkey1923

posh1923

hooey1924

shit1924

heifer dust1927

madam1927

baloney1928

horse feathers1928

phonus-bolonus1929

rhubarb1929

spinach1929

toffeea1930

tomtit1930

hockey1931

phoney baloney1933

moody1934

cockalorum1936

cock1937

mess1937

waffle1937

berley1941

bull dust1943

crud1943

globaloney1943

hubba-hubba1944

pish1944

phooey1946

asswipe1947

chickenshit1947

slag1948

batshit1950

goop1950

slop1952

cack1954

doo-doo1954

cobbler1955

horse shit1955

nyamps1955

pony1956

horse manure1957

waffling1958

bird shit1959

codswallop1959

how's your father1959

dog shit1963

cods1965

shmegegge1968

pucky1970

taradiddle1970

mouthwash1971

wank1974

gobshite1977

mince1985

toss1990

arse1993

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > a trick, deception > collectively

lakec1175

fibicches1362

flim-flam1570

tricks and trillibubs1637

funny business1882

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [noun] > nonsense, rubbish, humbug

flim-flam1570

flam1694

all my eye1763

bother1794

humbug1825

blague1839

bunkum1850

bambosh1865

eyewash1889

phonus-bolonus1929

phoney baloney1933

candyfloss1951

1570 Mariage Witte & Sci. ii. i. sig. Bi A longe tale of a man in the moone, With such a circumstaunce and such flym flam.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xviii. xii. 289 I tell thee 'tis all Flimflam .

1890 ‘W. A. Wallace’ Only a Sister xxxi They may be the wanderings of his dotage, and flim-flam after all.

4. The action of ‘flim-flamming’; in quot. attributive.

ΚΠ

1894 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 2 May 9/7 She notified the police, but the flim-flam artist was far away.

1894 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 17 Nov. 9/7 His success in the ‘flim-flam’ game.

B. adj.

[Developed from an attributive use of the noun; compare fancy adj.] Frivolous, idle, vain, nonsensical; also, deceptive, fictitious, sham.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [adjective]

feignedc1374

wronga1375

forged14..

falsesome1533

compound1574

flim-flam1577

coined1582

minted1598

fabled1606

commentitial1611

inventive1612

commentitious1615

fictiousa1644

fictitious1660

manufactured1705

commentative1716

made-up1806

inventeda1831

concocted1840

accrete1846

fictive1855

mythical1870

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [adjective] > cheating

trifling?a1400

cogging1542

cheatingc1555

flim-flam1577

overreaching1579

cozening1583

fogging1585

circumventing1603

gulling1614

imposturing1618

chicaning1698

crimping1699

bilking1732

humbugging1752

imposinga1754

nailing1819

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [adjective] > having or given specious appearance

paintedc1390

daubedc1400

cloakeda1500

fucate1531

fucated1535

coloured1537

flim-flam1577

tinsel1595

varnisheda1616

punkish1616

white-limeda1631

pargeted1645

tinselled1651

vizarded1663

lacquered1687

glossy1698

catchpenny1705

catch-shilling1808

tinselly1811

whitewashed1859

shoddy1882

veneered1884

hollowed-out1890

face-lifted1941

suede shoe1952

cosmetic1955

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [adjective]

tooma1250

beggarly1526

trumpery1576

balductum1577

skimble-skamble1598

nonsense1621

warbling1621

flim-flam1631

nonsensical1645

unsensical1692

fiddlecome1697

waffling1698

mataeological1716

flummery1749

water-gruelish1788

slip-sloppish1797

twaddling1804

twaddle1830

twaddly1841

fee-faw-fumish1846

poppycock1852

boshy1860

twaddlesome1865

moonshiny1880

cockalorum1881

tommyrotic1894

crappy1928

ballsy1942

farkakte1960

1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande ii. f. 5/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I His sclaunderous reportes are underpropt with flimme flamme surmises.

1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd i. 12 She will tell you a thousand flim-flam tales.

1685 J. Crowne Sir Courtly Nice iii. 25 Do you think I regard your Flim flam story o' the Church?

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) Don't thee tell up no such flim-flam stuff, else nobody ont never harky to thee.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

flim-flamv.

Brit.

/ˈflɪmflam/, U.S.

/ˈflɪmˌflæm/

Etymology: < flim-flam n.

transitive.

a. To humbug, to beguile into (something).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > treat fraudulently, cheat [verb (transitive)] > induce by deception

cozen1599

flim-flam1660

cheat1856

1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos ii. 111 None but fools will by thy floud of Words be flim-flam'd into thy Faith.

b. U.S. To cheat (a person) out of (money) ‘while he is making change for a bill, by distracting or confusing him, so that he pays out more than the proper sum’ ( Stand. Dict.).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle > out of something

beguile1394

wrongc1484

delude1493

licka1500

to wipe a person's nose1577

uncle1585

cheat1597

cozen1602

to bob of1605

to bob out of1605

gull1612

foola1616

to set in the nick1616

to worm (a person) out of1617

shuffle1627

to baffle out of1652

chouse1654

trepan1662

bubble1668

trick1698

to bamboozle out of1705

fling1749

jockey1772

swindle1780

twiddle1825

to diddle out of1829

nig1829

to chisel out of1848

to beat out1851

nobble1852

duff1863

flim-flam1890

1890 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 26 July Sent [to jail]..for flimflaming a..saloon-keeper out of some money.

1903 O. Kildare My Mamie Rose 72 ‘Flim-flamming’... Doubling a bill in a number of them and counting each end of it as one separate bill.

1904 E. Robins Magn. North ii. 144 But I didn't know you'd get flim-flammed out o' your boots.

1911 H. Quick Yellowstone Nights xi. 290 Financial ingenuity has found a way to flim flam the devil himself.

1929 D. Hammett Dain Curse (1930) xii. 127 His success in flimflamming his followers had gone to his head.

1934 J. M. Cain Postman always rings Twice x. 112 We've been flim-flammed, Cora.

1963 Punch 1 May 620/1 Marketing practices that smacked of flimflamming the public.

1971 Publishers' Weekly 22 Mar. 33 One expects somehow to be flim-flammed on a vacuum cleaner.

Derivatives

flim-flammer n. U.S.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun]

feature14..

frauderc1475

prowler1519

lurcher1528

defrauder1552

frauditor1553

taker-upc1555

verserc1555

fogger1564

Jack-in-the-box1570

gilenyer1590

foist1591

rutter1591

crossbiter1592

sharker1594

shark1600

bat-fowler1602

cheater1606

foister1610

operator1611

fraudsman1613

projector1615

smoke-sellera1618

decoy1618

firkera1626

scandaroon1631

snapa1640

cunning shaver1652

knight of industrya1658

chouse1658

cheat1664

sharper1681

jockey1683

rooker1683

fool-finder1685

rookster1697

sheep-shearer1699

bubbler1720

gyp1728

bite1742

swindler1770

pigeon1780

mace1781

gouger1790

needle1790

fly-by-night1796

sharp1797

skinner1797

diddler1803

mace cove1811

mace-gloak1819

macer1819

flat-catcher1821

moonlight wanderer1823

burner1838

Peter Funk1840

Funk1842

pigeoner1849

maceman1850

bester1856

fiddler1857

highway robber1874

bunco-steerer1875

swizzler1876

forty1879

flim-flammer1881

chouser1883

take-down1888

highbinder1890

fraud1895

Sam Slick1897

grafter1899

come-on1905

verneuker1905

gypster1917

chiseller1918

tweedler1925

rorter1926

gazumper1932

chizzer1935

sharpie1942

sharpster1942

slick1959

slickster1965

rip-off artist1968

shonky1970

rip-off merchant1971

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > a charlatan, fraudster > [noun] > a sharper, swindler

hawk1548

huckster1556

shifterc1562

coney-catcher1591

sharker1594

shark1600

bat-fowler1602

guller1602

gull-groper1602

poop-noddy1616

int1631

shirk1639

knight of industrya1658

hockettor1672

biter1680

sharper1681

duffer1735

sharp1797

diddler1803

chevalier of industry1807

flat-catcher1821

thimble-man1830

thimblerigger1831

thimblerig1839

riggerc1840

chevalier of fortune1867

flim-flammer1881

spiv1929

sharpie1942

shrewd1954

1881 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 12 Nov. 10/2 Among the numberless small swindles of the metropolis there is none more curious than that of the flim-flammer.

1894 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 31 Jan. The New York flim-flammers and green goods men..are still out of the clutches of the United Secret Service.

1903 N.Y. Sun 20 Nov. 8 They are about as fine a bunch of grafters and flim-flammers as have been got together in some time.

1968 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 27 Apr. 62/1 Peddlers, guides, flim-flammers and other friends of the tourist are forbidden there.

flim-flammery n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun]

swikec893

swikedomc893

dwalec950

braida1000

falsec1000

flerdc1000

swikelnessa1023

fakenOE

chuffingc1175

fikenungc1175

bipechingc1200

treachery?c1225

falseshipc1230

guilec1230

telingc1230

swikeheada1250

craftc1275

felony1297

wrench1297

deceitc1300

gabc1300

guiling13..

guilery1303

quaintisec1325

wrenk1338

beswiking1340

falsehood1340

abetc1350

wissing1357

wilec1374

faitery1377

faiting1377

tregetryc1380

fallacec1384

trainc1390

coverture1393

facrere1393

ficklenessc1397

falsagea1400

tregeta1400

abusionc1405

blearingc1405

deceptionc1430

mean?c1430

tricotc1430

obreption1465

fallacy1481

japery1496

gauderya1529

fallax1530

conveyance1531

legerdemain1532

dole1538

trompe1547

joukery1562

convoyance1578

forgery1582

abetment1586

outreaching1587

chicanery1589

falsery1594

falsity1603

fubbery1604

renaldry1612

supercherie1621

circumduction1623

fobbinga1627

dice-play1633

beguile1637

fallaxitya1641

ingannation1646

hocus1652

renardism1661

dodgerya1670

knapping1671

trap1681

joukery-pawkery1686

jugglery1699

take-in1772

tripotage1779

trickery1801

ruse1807

dupery1816

nailing1819

pawkery1820

hanky-panky1841

hokey-pokey1847

suck-in1856

phenakisma1863

skulduggery1867

sharp practice1869

dodginess1871

jiggery-pokery1893

flim-flammery1898

runaround1915

hanky1924

to give the go-around1925

Scandiknavery1927

the twist1933

hype1955

mamaguy1971

1898 W. J. Locke Idols xiv. 201 Sick of your flim~flammeries of philosophy.

1960 Observer 17 Jan. 12/6 I got a taste of his flimflammery the first time I met him.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	flim-flam
释义	flim-flamn.adj. Brit. /ˈflɪmflam/, U.S. /ˈflɪmˌflæm/ Forms: Also 1500s ? flym flawe, 1600s frim fram. Etymology: One of the many onomatopoeic reduplications with vowel variation expressive of contempt; compare fidfad, skimble-skamble, whimwham. Possibly based on a Scandinavian word which may have existed in some English dialects; compare Old Norse flim a lampoon, flimska mockery, flimta to flout. A. n. 1. A piece of nonsense or idle talk; a trifle, a conceit. Cf. flam n.¹ 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] > instance of flim-flam1546 delirium1599 bull1640 nonsense1646 fandango1841 fiddlededee1843 flapdoodle1878 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. x. sig. Ciii She maketh ernest matters of euery flymflam. 1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet E ij b Trusse vp thy packet of flim flams, & roage to some countrey Faire, or read it among boyes in the belfrie. 1638 R. West To Pious Memory T. Randolph in T. Randolph Poems sig. **2^v Such Iig-like flim-flams being got to make The Rabble laugh. 1885 Liverpool Daily Post* 11 May 8/7 Grossmith..crowds his picture with all kinds of flim-flams of the drawing-room. 2. A paltry attempt at deception; a contemptible trick or pretence; a piece of humbug. Cf. flam n.¹ 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > a trick, deception wrenchc888 swikec893 braida1000 craftOE wile1154 crookc1175 trokingc1175 guile?c1225 hocket1276 blink1303 errorc1320 guileryc1330 sleightc1340 knackc1369 deceitc1380 japec1380 gaudc1386 syllogism1387 mazec1390 mowa1393 train?a1400 trantc1400 abusionc1405 creekc1405 trickc1412 trayc1430 lirtc1440 quaint?a1450 touch1481 pawka1522 false point?1528 practice1533 crink1534 flim-flamc1538 bobc1540 fetcha1547 abuse1551 block1553 wrinklec1555 far-fetch?a1562 blirre1570 slampant1577 ruse1581 forgery1582 crank1588 plait1589 crossbite1591 cozenage1592 lock1598 quiblin1605 foist1607 junt1608 firk1611 overreach?1615 fob1622 ludification1623 knick-knacka1625 flam1632 dodge1638 gimcrack1639 fourbe1654 juggle1664 strategy1672 jilt1683 disingenuity1691 fun1699 jugglementa1708 spring1753 shavie1767 rig?1775 deception1794 Yorkshire bite1795 fakement1811 fake1829 practical1833 deceptivity1843 tread-behind1844 fly1861 schlenter1864 Sinonism1864 racket1869 have1885 ficelle1890 wheeze1903 fast one1912 roughie1914 spun-yarn trick1916 fastie1931 phoney baloney1933 fake-out1955 okey-doke1964 mind-fuck1971 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [noun] > instance of braida1000 fraudc1374 mock1523 brogue1537 flim-flamc1538 imposture1548 lie1560 cozening1576 smoke-hole1580 gullery1598 gull1600 cog1602 coggery1602 fraudulency1630 imposition1632 cheat1649 fourbery1650 prestige1656 sham1677 crimp1684 bite1711 humbug1750 swindle1778 hookum-snivey1781 shim-sham1797 gag1805 intake1808 racket1819 wooden nutmeg1822 sell1838 caper1851 skin game1879 Kaffir bargain1899 swizzle1913 swizz1915 put-on1919 ready-up1924 rort1926 jack-up1945 c1538 in State Papers (1834) II. iii. 552 He and his fellawes were sent hither..but for a flim flawe to stoppe the ymagination of the Kynge and Counsaile in that behalf. 1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 14 He gave me this flim flam, that I had persuadid him sumwhat. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. (1609) vi. xvi. 227 The Dictatour commanded him to leave off these foolish flimflams & trifling shifts. 1663 A. Cowley Cutter of Coleman-St. iv. iv. 43 I'le ha' none of his Flim-flams, and his May-be's. 1692 ‘J. Curate’ Sc. Presbyterian Eloquence iii. 110 Criticks with their frim frams and whytie whaties. 1805 D'Israeli (title) Flim-Flams, or the Life and Errors of my Uncle. 1880 B. Disraeli Endymion III. xxiii. 226 All these habitual flim-flams are, in general, the airy creatures of inaccuracy and exaggeration. 3. collective. Nonsense, rubbish; humbug, deception. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] magged talea1387 moonshine1468 trumperyc1485 foolishness1531 trash1542 baggage1545 flim-flam1570 gear1570 rubbisha1576 fiddle-faddle1577 stuff1579 fible-fable1581 balductum1593 pill1608 nonsense1612 skimble-skamble1619 porridge1642 mataeology1656 fiddle-come-faddle1663 apple sauce1672 balderdash1674 flummery1749 slang1762 all my eye1763 diddle-daddle1778 (all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781 twaddle1782 blancmange1790 fudge1791 twiddle-twaddle1798 bothering1803 fee-faw-fum1811 slip-slop1811 nash-gab1816 flitter-tripe1822 effutiation1823 bladderdash1826 ráiméis1828 fiddlededee1843 pickles1846 rot1846 kelter1847 bosh1850 flummadiddle1850 poppycock1852 Barnum1856 fribble-frabble1859 kibosh1860 skittle1864 cod1866 Collyweston1867 punk1869 slush1869 stupidness1873 bilge-water1878 flapdoodle1878 tommyrot1880 ruck1882 piffle1884 flamdoodle1888 razzmatazz1888 balls1889 pop1890 narrischkeit1892 tosh1892 footle1894 tripe1895 crap1898 bunk1900 junk1906 quatsch1907 bilge1908 B.S.1912 bellywash1913 jazz1913 wash1913 bullshit?1915 kid-stakes1916 hokum1917 bollock1919 bullsh1919 bushwa1920 noise1920 bish-bosh1922 malarkey1923 posh1923 hooey1924 shit1924 heifer dust1927 madam1927 baloney1928 horse feathers1928 phonus-bolonus1929 rhubarb1929 spinach1929 toffeea1930 tomtit1930 hockey1931 phoney baloney1933 moody1934 cockalorum1936 cock1937 mess1937 waffle1937 berley1941 bull dust1943 crud1943 globaloney1943 hubba-hubba1944 pish1944 phooey1946 asswipe1947 chickenshit1947 slag1948 batshit1950 goop1950 slop1952 cack1954 doo-doo1954 cobbler1955 horse shit1955 nyamps1955 pony1956 horse manure1957 waffling1958 bird shit1959 codswallop1959 how's your father1959 dog shit1963 cods1965 shmegegge1968 pucky1970 taradiddle1970 mouthwash1971 wank1974 gobshite1977 mince1985 toss1990 arse1993 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > a trick, deception > collectively lakec1175 fibicches1362 flim-flam1570 tricks and trillibubs1637 funny business1882 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [noun] > nonsense, rubbish, humbug flim-flam1570 flam1694 all my eye1763 bother1794 humbug1825 blague1839 bunkum1850 bambosh1865 eyewash1889 phonus-bolonus1929 phoney baloney1933 candyfloss1951 1570 Mariage Witte & Sci. ii. i. sig. Bi A longe tale of a man in the moone, With such a circumstaunce and such flym flam. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xviii. xii. 289 I tell thee 'tis all Flimflam . View more context for this quotation 1890 ‘W. A. Wallace’ Only a Sister xxxi They may be the wanderings of his dotage, and flim-flam after all. 4. The action of ‘flim-flamming’; in quot. attributive. ΚΠ 1894 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 2 May 9/7 She notified the police, but the flim-flam artist was far away. 1894 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 17 Nov. 9/7 His success in the ‘flim-flam’ game. B. adj. [Developed from an attributive use of the noun; compare fancy adj.] Frivolous, idle, vain, nonsensical; also, deceptive, fictitious, sham. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [adjective] feignedc1374 wronga1375 forged14.. falsesome1533 compound1574 flim-flam1577 coined1582 minted1598 fabled1606 commentitial1611 inventive1612 commentitious1615 fictiousa1644 fictitious1660 manufactured1705 commentative1716 made-up1806 inventeda1831 concocted1840 accrete1846 fictive1855 mythical1870 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [adjective] > cheating trifling?a1400 cogging1542 cheatingc1555 flim-flam1577 overreaching1579 cozening1583 fogging1585 circumventing1603 gulling1614 imposturing1618 chicaning1698 crimping1699 bilking1732 humbugging1752 imposinga1754 nailing1819 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [adjective] > having or given specious appearance paintedc1390 daubedc1400 cloakeda1500 fucate1531 fucated1535 coloured1537 flim-flam1577 tinsel1595 varnisheda1616 punkish1616 white-limeda1631 pargeted1645 tinselled1651 vizarded1663 lacquered1687 glossy1698 catchpenny1705 catch-shilling1808 tinselly1811 whitewashed1859 shoddy1882 veneered1884 hollowed-out1890 face-lifted1941 suede shoe1952 cosmetic1955 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [adjective] tooma1250 beggarly1526 trumpery1576 balductum1577 skimble-skamble1598 nonsense1621 warbling1621 flim-flam1631 nonsensical1645 unsensical1692 fiddlecome1697 waffling1698 mataeological1716 flummery1749 water-gruelish1788 slip-sloppish1797 twaddling1804 twaddle1830 twaddly1841 fee-faw-fumish1846 poppycock1852 boshy1860 twaddlesome1865 moonshiny1880 cockalorum1881 tommyrotic1894 crappy1928 ballsy1942 farkakte1960 1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande ii. f. 5/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I His sclaunderous reportes are underpropt with flimme flamme surmises. 1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd i. 12 She will tell you a thousand flim-flam tales. 1685 J. Crowne Sir Courtly Nice iii. 25 Do you think I regard your Flim flam story o' the Church? 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) Don't thee tell up no such flim-flam stuff, else nobody ont never harky to thee. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). flim-flamv. Brit. /ˈflɪmflam/, U.S. /ˈflɪmˌflæm/ Etymology: < flim-flam n. transitive. a. To humbug, to beguile into (something). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > treat fraudulently, cheat [verb (transitive)] > induce by deception cozen1599 flim-flam1660 cheat1856 1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos ii. 111 None but fools will by thy floud of Words be flim-flam'd into thy Faith. b. U.S. To cheat (a person) out of (money) ‘while he is making change for a bill, by distracting or confusing him, so that he pays out more than the proper sum’ ( Stand. Dict.). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle > out of something beguile1394 wrongc1484 delude1493 licka1500 to wipe a person's nose1577 uncle1585 cheat1597 cozen1602 to bob of1605 to bob out of1605 gull1612 foola1616 to set in the nick1616 to worm (a person) out of1617 shuffle1627 to baffle out of1652 chouse1654 trepan1662 bubble1668 trick1698 to bamboozle out of1705 fling1749 jockey1772 swindle1780 twiddle1825 to diddle out of1829 nig1829 to chisel out of1848 to beat out1851 nobble1852 duff1863 flim-flam1890 1890 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 26 July Sent [to jail]..for flimflaming a..saloon-keeper out of some money. 1903 O. Kildare My Mamie Rose 72 ‘Flim-flamming’... Doubling a bill in a number of them and counting each end of it as one separate bill. 1904 E. Robins Magn. North ii. 144 But I didn't know you'd get flim-flammed out o' your boots. 1911 H. Quick Yellowstone Nights xi. 290 Financial ingenuity has found a way to flim flam the devil himself. 1929 D. Hammett Dain Curse (1930) xii. 127 His success in flimflamming his followers had gone to his head. 1934 J. M. Cain Postman always rings Twice x. 112 We've been flim-flammed, Cora. 1963 Punch 1 May 620/1 Marketing practices that smacked of flimflamming the public. 1971 Publishers' Weekly 22 Mar. 33 One expects somehow to be flim-flammed on a vacuum cleaner. Derivatives flim-flammer n. U.S. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun] feature14.. frauderc1475 prowler1519 lurcher1528 defrauder1552 frauditor1553 taker-upc1555 verserc1555 fogger1564 Jack-in-the-box1570 gilenyer1590 foist1591 rutter1591 crossbiter1592 sharker1594 shark1600 bat-fowler1602 cheater1606 foister1610 operator1611 fraudsman1613 projector1615 smoke-sellera1618 decoy1618 firkera1626 scandaroon1631 snapa1640 cunning shaver1652 knight of industrya1658 chouse1658 cheat1664 sharper1681 jockey1683 rooker1683 fool-finder1685 rookster1697 sheep-shearer1699 bubbler1720 gyp1728 bite1742 swindler1770 pigeon1780 mace1781 gouger1790 needle1790 fly-by-night1796 sharp1797 skinner1797 diddler1803 mace cove1811 mace-gloak1819 macer1819 flat-catcher1821 moonlight wanderer1823 burner1838 Peter Funk1840 Funk1842 pigeoner1849 maceman1850 bester1856 fiddler1857 highway robber1874 bunco-steerer1875 swizzler1876 forty1879 flim-flammer1881 chouser1883 take-down1888 highbinder1890 fraud1895 Sam Slick1897 grafter1899 come-on1905 verneuker1905 gypster1917 chiseller1918 tweedler1925 rorter1926 gazumper1932 chizzer1935 sharpie1942 sharpster1942 slick1959 slickster1965 rip-off artist1968 shonky1970 rip-off merchant1971 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > a charlatan, fraudster > [noun] > a sharper, swindler hawk1548 huckster1556 shifterc1562 coney-catcher1591 sharker1594 shark1600 bat-fowler1602 guller1602 gull-groper1602 poop-noddy1616 int1631 shirk1639 knight of industrya1658 hockettor1672 biter1680 sharper1681 duffer1735 sharp1797 diddler1803 chevalier of industry1807 flat-catcher1821 thimble-man1830 thimblerigger1831 thimblerig1839 riggerc1840 chevalier of fortune1867 flim-flammer1881 spiv1929 sharpie1942 shrewd1954 1881 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 12 Nov. 10/2 Among the numberless small swindles of the metropolis there is none more curious than that of the flim-flammer. 1894 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 31 Jan. The New York flim-flammers and green goods men..are still out of the clutches of the United Secret Service. 1903 N.Y. Sun 20 Nov. 8 They are about as fine a bunch of grafters and flim-flammers as have been got together in some time. 1968 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 27 Apr. 62/1 Peddlers, guides, flim-flammers and other friends of the tourist are forbidden there. flim-flammery n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] swikec893 swikedomc893 dwalec950 braida1000 falsec1000 flerdc1000 swikelnessa1023 fakenOE chuffingc1175 fikenungc1175 bipechingc1200 treachery?c1225 falseshipc1230 guilec1230 telingc1230 swikeheada1250 craftc1275 felony1297 wrench1297 deceitc1300 gabc1300 guiling13.. guilery1303 quaintisec1325 wrenk1338 beswiking1340 falsehood1340 abetc1350 wissing1357 wilec1374 faitery1377 faiting1377 tregetryc1380 fallacec1384 trainc1390 coverture1393 facrere1393 ficklenessc1397 falsagea1400 tregeta1400 abusionc1405 blearingc1405 deceptionc1430 mean?c1430 tricotc1430 obreption1465 fallacy1481 japery1496 gauderya1529 fallax1530 conveyance1531 legerdemain1532 dole1538 trompe1547 joukery1562 convoyance1578 forgery1582 abetment1586 outreaching1587 chicanery1589 falsery1594 falsity1603 fubbery1604 renaldry1612 supercherie1621 circumduction1623 fobbinga1627 dice-play1633 beguile1637 fallaxitya1641 ingannation1646 hocus1652 renardism1661 dodgerya1670 knapping1671 trap1681 joukery-pawkery1686 jugglery1699 take-in1772 tripotage1779 trickery1801 ruse1807 dupery1816 nailing1819 pawkery1820 hanky-panky1841 hokey-pokey1847 suck-in1856 phenakisma1863 skulduggery1867 sharp practice1869 dodginess1871 jiggery-pokery1893 flim-flammery1898 runaround1915 hanky1924 to give the go-around1925 Scandiknavery1927 the twist1933 hype1955 mamaguy1971 1898 W. J. Locke Idols xiv. 201 Sick of your flim~flammeries of philosophy. 1960 Observer 17 Jan. 12/6 I got a taste of his flimflammery the first time I met him. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.c1538v.1660
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