blaflumn.
Scottish.
Deception, imposition, hoax.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [noun]
falsec1000
fraudc1330
barrat1340
faitery1377
defraudc1450
trumpery1481
covin1487
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knavery1528
conveyance1531
imposture1537
defrauding1548
cozenage1583
impostry1585
catch-dolt1592
gullery1598
coggery1602
gullage1607
charlatism1611
impostury1615
quacksalvery1617
mountebankery1618
imposition1632
imposturisma1634
blaflum1637
charlatanry1638
defraudment1645
mountebankism1649
impostorya1652
impostorism1652
imposturage1654
impostery1656
mountebank1657
imposing1659
quackery1675
quackism1722
empiricism1774
cross1802
charlatanism1804
practitionery1818
cozenry1829
humbuggery1831
trick1833
thimble-shift1834
thimble-shifting1834
thimbleriggery1841
humbuggism1842
quackhood1843
quacksalverism1864
razzle-dazzle1928
spivery1948
shuck1958
shucking and jiving1969
1637 S. Rutherford Let. 14 July in Joshua Redivivus (1664) 9 Many..when they goe to take out their faith they take out a fair nothing (or as ye use to speak) a bleflume.
1640 R. Baillie Let. Sept. (1841) I. 254 All his act was bot a blephum.
1788 E. Picken Poems & Epist. 63 Fine blaw-flums o' teas That grow abroad.
1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down Blaflum, blafum, nonsense; something said to mislead.
Derivatives
blaflumry n. (also blaeflummery)
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1819 A. Balfour Campbell I. 328 (Jam.) A' that blaeflummery that's makin sic a haliballoo in the warld.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
blaflumv.
Scottish.
transitive. To impose upon.
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1724 A. Ramsay On seeing Archers in Health (new ed.) 26 The Chair, Which bears him to blaflum the Fair.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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