flim-flam

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Misinformation; bunkum; false information presented as true. countable,uncountable
    — Most reports of supernatural occurrences turn out to be flim-flam when carefully investigated.
  2. Confidence game, con game. countable,uncountable
    — Those who got the joke understood that all of the city’s talk of ideas and principles was flimflam to conceal self-enrichment at the public’s expense. Those who didn’t, didn’t.
  3. Table tennis. archaic,countable,uncountable

词形变化

flim-flams plural flimflam alternative flim flam alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
flim-flam man flam flim

词源

Ultimately a sound-symbolic reduplication, 1538 as noun, 1660 as verb. Perhaps from a dialectal word or North Germanic/Scandinavian; compare Old Norse flim (“lampoon, mockery”).
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