four flushn.
/ˈfɔː flʌʃ/, U.S. /ˈfɔr ˌfləʃ/ U.S.
In poker, a flush containing only four (instead of five) cards, and hence almost worthless; a bob-tail flush. Hence attributive or as adj. , lacking in genuineness.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > poker > [noun] > type of hand > combinations of cards
triplet1864
royal flush1868
bobtailed flush1873
bobtail flush1875
skip1880
royal straight1883
four flush1887
skip straight1887
inside straight1934
1887 J. W. Keller Game of Draw Poker 35 If in opening a pot a player finds in his hand a pair and a four flush, or four straight, he may break his pair.
1900 G. Ade Fables in Slang 12 She always saw the same old line of Four-Flush Drummers from Chicago and St. Louis.
1901 ‘H. McHugh’ John Henry i. 11 The four-flush call-down makes you back-pedal.
1904 N.Y. Evening Post 20 Feb. 10 Mayor Harrison's assertion that the Sunday closing law is a ‘four-flush’ law..one that was meant to deceive and not meant for actual enforcement.
Derivatives
four-flush v. U.S. intransitive to act in a ‘bluffing’ or fraudulent manner; chiefly as
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > practise trickery [verb (intransitive)] > using bluff
to play a game of brag1845
gas1847
bluff1854
to run a bluff on1887
four-flush1896
fluff1902
blag1991
1896 G. Ade Artie iv. 37 ‘I thought he was going to fight.’ ‘Not that boy. He was four-flushin'.’
1920 I. Ostrander How many Cards? 245 I've an idea that Waverly is four-flushing financially..and is in on a percentage of Cutler's games.
ˈfour-flusher n. a pretender, braggart, humbug.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > affected person
affecter1607
snuffler1642
languisher1713
attitudinarian1756
attitudinizer1824
pseudo1829
posturer1833
posturist1857
poseur1869
affectationist1873
Turveydrop1877
posturant1882
poser1888
four-flusher1904
gobdaw1947
nerd1951
pseud1954
jive-ass1964
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [noun] > practitioner > who bluffs
screamer1831
blagueur1883
bluff1904
four-flusher1904
sprucer1917
1904 ‘No. 1500’ Life in Sing Sing xiii. 255 Four-flusher, one who poses for effect.
1910 Outlook 25 June 376 Many doubted his intention, and one newspaper called him a ‘four-flusher’.
1916 ‘B. M. Bower’ Phantom Herd ii. 30 Some of the four-flushers..kept eyeing that bluff.
1920 A. B. Baxter Parts Men Play xxi. §1 Vot you mean, you great big fourflusher?
1923 R. D. Paine Comrades Rolling Ocean vi. 106 I could have sized up this Maddigan four-flusher if he had merely walked across the campus in my freshman year.
1924 W. M. Raine Troubled Waters ii. 22 You're a fine bunch of four-flushers.
1944 L. A. G. Strong Director xiii. 112 You shouldn't let these four-flushers come it over you.
four-flushing n. and adj.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [noun]
legerdemain1532
hocus-pocus1647
sham1683
funning1728
humbugging1752
humming1807
hoaxing1808
larking1813
cutting-up1843
cut-up1843
shenanigan1855
codology1860
greening1863
cod1866
leg-pulling1879
spoof1889
codding1892
spoofery1895
four-flushing1901
kidding1901
shenaniganning1924
kidology1964
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [adjective] > employing trickery
trifling?a1400
bantering1660
hoaxing1808
mystifyingc1827
bluffing1850
four-flushing1901
spoofing1920
shenaniganning1924
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
1901 ‘J. Flynt’ World of Graft 46 That's what I call four-flushin'.
1942 W. Stegner Mormon Country 286 A four-flushing holdup man named Gunplay Maxwell.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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