flamn.1adj.
/flam/, U.S. /flæm/ A. n.1† 1. A fanciful notion, caprice, whim. Obsolete.† 2. A fanciful composition; a conceit. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > capriciousness > a caprice or whim
fantasya1450
wantonness1531
humour1533
worm?a1534
will1542
toy?1545
whey-worm1548
wild worm1548
freak1563
crotchet1573
fancy1579
whim-wham1580
whirligig1589
caper1592
megrim1593
spleen1594
kicksey-winsey1599
fegary1600
humorousness1604
curiosity1605
conundrum1607
whimsy1607
windmill1612
buzza1616
capriccioa1616
quirka1616
flama1625
maggota1625
fantasticality1631
capruch1634
gimcrack1639
whimseycado1654
caprich1656
excursion1662
frisk1665
caprice1673
fita1680
grub1681
fantasque1697
whim1697
frolic1711
flight1717
whigmaleery1730
vagary1753
maddock1787
kink1803
fizgig1824
fad1834
whimmery1837
fantod1839
brain crack1853
whimsy-whamsy1871
tic1896
tick1900
a1625 J. Fletcher Humorous Lieut. iv. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Rrr4 v/1 Presently With some new flam or other..She takes her chamber.
1672 J. Eachard Let. 35 in Mr. Hobbs's State Nature Considered It may be convenient for you to call this..a flam, a whisker, a caprice.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [noun]
phantoma1375
fantasyc1440
conceitc1450
fancy1471
crotchet1573
whim-wham1580
vision1592
reverie1602
whimsy1607
windmill1612
brainworm1617
maggota1625
vapour1631
flama1637
fantastic1641
idea1660
whim1697
rockstaff1729
whigmaleery1730
vagary1753
freak1785
whimsy-whamsy1807
crankum1822
whimmery1837
society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] > fanciful
flama1637
a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods xliii. 36 in Wks. (1640) III Anagrams, Or Eteostichs, or those finer flammes Of Egges, and Halberds.
1725 J. Swift Let. to Pope 29 Sept. in Lett. Dr. Swift (1741) 36 [Philips] writes little Flams (as Lord Leicester called those sort of verses) on Miss Carteret.
1755 T. Gray Let. 9 Mar. in Corr. (1971) III. 420 Must they too come out in the shape of little six-penny flams, dropping one after another, till Mr. Dodsley thinks fit to collect them..into a pretty volume?
3.
a. A sham story, fabrication, falsehood; a piece of deception, a trick.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun] > a falsehood, lie
liec900
leasingc1000
falsehoodc1290
falsedom1297
gabbinga1300
fablec1300
follyc1300
fittenc1440
untruthc1449
crackc1450
fallacy1481
falsity1557
falsedict1579
untroth1581
crackera1625
flam1632
mendacity1646
fairy story1692
false1786
whid1794
gag1805
wrinkle1819
reacher1828
cram1842
untruism1845
crammer1861
inveracity1864
bung1882
fairy tale1896
mistruth1897
post-and-rails1945
pork pie1973
porky1985
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 > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [noun] > an invention, fiction, story
fablec1300
fantasy1362
feigning1388
invention?a1513
story?1531
finctionc1540
figment1577
fingure1593
fiction1599
knavigation1613
flam1632
gun1720
novel1764
fabrication1790
fudge1797
gag1805
myth1840
make-up1844
concoction1885
fictionalization1954
1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) A flam, or a flimflam tale, riotte.
1637 J. Pocklington Altare Christianum 22 The Lincolneshire minister can devise no flamme (as he speaks) to shift off these..cleare places in Origen.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. i. 12 His Flamens and Arch-Flamens, seeme Flamms and Arch-Flamms, even notorious Falshoods.
1760 S. Foote Minor ii. 66 Had the flam been fact, your behaviour was natural enough.
1825 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xix, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 368 And all that comes after a flim and a flam.
1888 D. C. Murray & H. Murray Dangerous Catspaw 164 The letter's a flam.
b. Humbug, deception; flattery, ‘blarney’.
ΘΚΠ
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
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > insincere or pretentious talk > [noun]
flash1605
sniffling1653
canting1659
cant1710
galbanum1764
gas1793
blarney1796
gammon1805
slum1812
claptrap1819
flam1825
glittering generality1849
bull's wool1850
eyewash1857
bunkum1862
hot air1873
kid1874
fustian1880
flubdub1888
bull1914
oil1917
blah1918
drip1919
piss and wind1922
banana-oil1927
flannel1927
crud1943
old talk1956
ole talk1964
okey-doke1969
yada yada1991
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > [noun]
fickling?c1225
flattering?c1225
oluhningc1225
glozec1290
glozing1297
losengery1303
blandishingc1305
blandingc1315
flatteryc1320
glotheringc1325
soothinga1400
honey word?1406
faginga1425
flatrisec1440
smekingc1440
blandishc1475
blandiment?1510
glavering1545
coggingc1555
good1563
milksop1577
court holy water1583
glavery1583
blandishment1591
lipsalve1591
court holy bread1592
flatter1593
colloguing1596
sooth1597
daub?1602
blandation1605
lullaby1611
court-water1616
butter1618
blandiloquy1623
oil1645
court-element1649
courtshipment1649
courtship1655
blandiloquence1656
court-creama1657
daubing1656
fleecha1700
Spanish money1699
cajole1719
whiting1721
palaver1733
butter boat1747
flummery1749
treacle1771
Spanish coin1785
blancmange1790
blarney1796
soft corn1814
whillywha1816
carney1818
buttering up1819
soft soap1821
flam1825
slaver1825
soft solder1836
soothing syrup1839
soft-soaping1840
plámás1853
sawder1854
soap1854
salve1859
taffy1878
plámásing1897
flannel1927
smarm1937
flannelling1945
sweet talk1945
schmear1950
smarming1950
1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 608 All Pretences..to the contrary, are nothing but Cant and Cheat, Flam and Delusion.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Flam, flattery bordering on a lie.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 367/1 ‘There are very few who take money; indeed they profess to take none at all. ‘But that is all flam’, said my informant.
1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Flam, flattery—equivalent to blarney.
[Developed from an attributive use of the noun; compare fancy adj.] That is intended to deceive; counterfeit, fictitious, sham. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > [adjective]
counterfeitedc1385
counterfeitc1386
trothlessa1393
bastard1397
forged1484
apocryphate1486
adulterate?a1509
mockisha1513
sophisticate1531
adulterine1542
adulterous1547
mock1548
forbate1558
coined1582
firking1594
feigned1598
adulterated1610
apocryphal1612
spurious1615
usurpeda1616
impostured1619
mock-madea1625
suppository1641
affictitious1656
pasteboard1659
sophisticated1673
flam1678
Brummagem1679
sham1681
belieda1718
fictitious1739
Birmingham1785
pinchbeck1790
brummish1803
Brum1805
flash1812
spurious1830
bogus1839
imitative1839
dummy1846
doctored1853
postiche1854
pseudo1854
Brummagemish1855
snide1859
inauthentic1860
fake1879
bum1884
Brummie1886
tin1886
filled1887
duff1889
faked1890
shicec1890
margarine1891
dud1904
Potemkin village1904
mocked-up1919
phoney baloney1936
four-flushing1942
bodgie1956
moody1958
disauthentic1960
bodgied1988
bodgied-up1988
1678–9 C. Hatton 18 Mar. in E. M. Thompson Corr. Family of Hatton (1878) I. 184 His Loppe had been impos'd on by a flamm report.
1692 T. Sprat Let. in Relation Wicked Contrivance S. Blackhead (1693) I. 31 She addeth a Flam Story, That she had got his Hand by Corrupting one of the Letter-Carriers.
1702 R. L'Estrange tr. Josephus Jewish Antiq. xvi. vii, in Wks. 449 He could not so conveniently Impose upon his Father with Flam-Stories against his Brothers.
Derivatives
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > nonsense! [interjection]
strawc1412
tilly-vallya1529
flam-flirt1590
fiddlestick1600
fiddle-faddle1671
stuff1701
snuff1725
fudge1766
fiddlededeea1784
rats1816
havers1825
humbug1825
gammon1827
rubbish1839
pickles1846
rot1846
skittle1864
slush1869
flapdoodle1878
quatsch1907
phooey1908
tommyrot1931
balls1938
no shit1939
bollocks1940
phonus-bolonus1955
hockey1961
leave it out!1969
1590 R. Wilson Three Lordes & Three Ladies London B iij b Fly, flam flurt: why? Can a flie doo hurt?
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
flamn.2
/flam/, U.S. /flæm/ (See quot. 1819.)
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > signalling with other sounding instruments > [noun] > drumbeat as signal
tattoo1644
flam1796
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > beating drum > [noun] > stroke on drum > types of stroke
flam1796
brush-work1868
drag1927
rimshot1934
1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Flam, a single stroke on a drum.
1819 A. Rees Cycl. XII. at Drum The Flam is a beat made by the two sticks striking almost at the same instant on the head, but so as to be heard separately.
a1843 R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1851) 4th Ser. 434/2 In beating the drum there is the roll, the swell, the flam, and the ruffle.
1876 G. E. Voyle Mil. Dict. (ed. 3)
1931 G. Jacob Orchestral Technique vii. 71 Very characteristic of the side-drum are the strokes known as ‘the flam’ and the ‘drag’.
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flamn.3
/flam/, U.S. /flæm/ (See quots.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] > with irises
flam1725
1725 T. Hearne R. Mannyng's Chron. Gloss. at Flom It is withall remarkable, that low, watry, rushy places are frequently call'd Flams by persons..in and about Oxford.
1791 Rep. Navigation Thames & Isis Estimate 3 The Flam or Close to be cut through, and Gangways to the Bridge for the Towing-Horses.
1872 H. W. Taunt Map of Thames p. x The reedy flams which line its left bank.
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† flamn.4
Obsolete. rare.
? Short for flambeau n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > torch > [noun] > wax torch
standard1611
flambeau1632
flam1755
1755 T. Amory Mem. Ladies 449 We had but one flam left. An accident might likewise extinguish it, and then what could we do?
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
flamn.5
/flam/, U.S. /flæm/ = flan n.1
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > blast or gust of
ghosteOE
blasta1000
blas?c1225
ragec1405
blorec1440
flaw1513
thud1513
flaga1522
fuddera1522
flake1555
flan1572
whid?1590
flirta1592
gust1594
berry1598
wind-catch1610
snuff1613
stress1625
flash1653
blow1655
fresh1662
scud1694
flurry1698
gush1704
flam1711
waff1727
flawer1737
Roger's Blasta1825
flaff1827
slat1840
scart1861
rodges-blast1879
huffle1889
slap1890
slammer1891
Sir Roger1893
1711 R. Sibbald Descr. Isles Shetland 36 in Descr. Isles Orknay & Zetland Ronis-voe..could Harbour many Ships, were it free from the Flams of Wind, which come from the Mountain.
1820 St. Kathleen III. 110 It blows squally, as the flams o' reek flappin' doun the lum may tell ye.
1903 Northern Ensign 28 July 2/1 'Er's a flam o' win' doon 'e shimley.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
flamv.
/flam/, U.S. /flæm/ΘΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > forge, falsify [verb (transitive)]
forgec1330
counterfeitc1386
feign1484
flamc1500
adulterate?1526
mint1593
fashion1600
fudge1674
sham1699
doctor1750
fake1884
to fake up1885
phoney1940
bodgie1969
c1500 Ratis Raving etc. 3687 Flam not the flouris at wyll faid, To mend hir mak at god has maid.
2. To deceive by a sham story or trick, or by flattery; also, to flam off, up. Obsolete exc. dialect or U.S.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deceive [verb (transitive)]
aschrenchc885
blendc888
swikec950
belirtOE
beswike971
blencha1000
blenka1000
belieOE
becatchc1175
trokec1175
beguile?c1225
biwrench?c1225
guile?c1225
trechec1230
unordainc1300
blink1303
deceivec1320
feintc1330
trechetc1330
misusea1382
blind1382
forgo1382
beglose1393
troil1393
turnc1405
lirt?a1425
abuse?a1439
ludify1447
amuse1480
wilec1480
trump1487
delude?a1505
sile1508
betrumpa1522
blear1530
aveugle1543
mislippen1552
pot1560
disglose1565
oversile1568
blaze1570
blirre1570
bleck1573
overtake1581
fail1590
bafflea1592
blanch1592
geck?a1600
hallucinate1604
hoodwink1610
intrigue1612
guggle1617
nigglea1625
nose-wipe1628
cog1629
cheat1637
flam1637
nurse1639
jilt1660
top1663
chaldese1664
bilk1672
bejuggle1680
nuzzlec1680
snub1694
bite1709
nebus1712
fugle1719
to take in1740
have?1780
quirk1791
rum1812
rattlesnake1818
chicane1835
to suck in1842
mogue1854
blinker1865
to have on1867
mag1869
sleight1876
bumfuzzle1878
swop1890
wool1890
spruce1917
jive1928
shit1934
smokescreen1950
dick1964
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > trick, hoax [verb (transitive)] > bamboozle
to flam off, up1637
banter1680
bamboozle1703
bam1738
mystify1806
1637 T. Heywood Dial. ii, in Wks. (1874) VI. 112 You do not well to jeere and flam Me.
?c1640 W. Rowley et al. Witch of Edmonton (1658) ii. ii. 25 Was this your cunning? and then flam me off With an old Witch.
1660 Scutum Regale: Royal Buckler 188 Damnable Usurpers..flaming the people in the mouth with a tale.
1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 524 A God, who is not to be flamm'd off with Lyes.
1765 C. Johnstone Chrysal III. i. xii. 72 No such tricks for me. I am not to be flammed so neither.
1837–40 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1862) 153 Few would accept it..without some sponsible man to indorse it, that warn't given to flammin.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Flam up, to cajole.
1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) Flam, to humbug, or deceive. ‘He's only flammin.’
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