Crossword clues for flam
flam
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flam \Flam\ (fl[a^]m), n. [Cf. AS. fle['a]m, fl[=ae]m, flight. [root]84 . Cf. Flimflam.] A freak or whim; also, a falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion. [Obs.]
A perpetual abuse and flam upon posterity.
--South.
Flam \Flam\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flammed; p. pr. & vb. n. Flamming.] To deceive with a falsehood. [Obs.]
God is not to be flammed off with lies.
--South.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, "sham story, fabrication," also as a verb, "to deceive by flattery;" see flim-flam.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A freak or whim. 2 A falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion. vb. (context obsolete English) To deceive with a falsehood. Etymology 2
n. (cx drumming English) Two taps (a grace note followed by a full-volume tap) played very close together in order to sound like one slightly longer note.
Wikipedia
Flåm is a village in Flåmsdalen, at the inner end of the Aurlandsfjorden—a branch of Sognefjorden. The village is located in the municipality of Aurland in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway.
Flam or FLAM may refer to:
- Flåm, a town in Norway
- African Liberation Forces of Mauritania (FLAM), a paramilitary organization
- Flam (surname), a list of people with the surname
- Flam, a type of drum rudiment
Flam is a surname. Notable people with the surname (or its variant Flahm) include:
- Faye Flam, American science writer
- Harry Flam (born 1948), Swedish economics professor at Stockholm University
- Helena Flam (born 1951), Polish-born sociology professor at the University of Leipzig
- Herbert Flam (1928–1980), Jewish-American tennis player
- Leopold Flam (1912–1995), Belgian philosopher
Usage examples of "flam".
Karl says, tossing the tablet onto the desk where it caroms off a stack of books, "spare me the flim flam nobility, the shtick about the tireless search for truth.
Paul's Churchyard, where she bought a pair of gloves, which she gave me, and thence renewed her directions to the coachman to drive to her house in *** street, who accord-ingly landed us at her door, after I had been cheer'd up and entertain'd by the way with the most plausible flams, without one syllable from which I could conclude anything but that I was, by the greatest good luck, fallen into the hands of the kindest mistress, not to say friend, that the varsal world could afford.