FLAM

Definition: FLAM

FLAM

Noun

1. A freak or whim; also, a falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion.

Transitive verb

1. To deceive with a falsehood.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "FLAM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Literature

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Falsehood

Lip homage, lip service; mouth honor; hollowness; mere show, mere outside; duplicity, double dealing, insincerity, hypocrisy, cant, humbug; jesuitism, jesuitry; pharisaism; Machiavelism, "organized hypocrisy"; crocodile tears, mealy-mouthedness, quackery; charlatanism, charlatanry; gammon; bun-kum, bumcombe, flam; bam, flimflam, cajolery, flattery; Judas kiss; perfidy; (bad faith); il volto sciolto i pensieri stretti.

Crosswords: FLAM

Frisian (flame).

Fast talkin' good looking flim flam jive (THAT'S KILLER JOE; performing artist: Manhattan Transfer)

Flicker flicker flicker flam pow pow (Astronomy domine; performing artist: Pink Floyd)

Flim Flam Fountain (1971)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Flim and Flam and the Big Cheese (reference)

• Flim Flam (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Flim Flam Man (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• The Flam (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Ending with "FLAM": flim-flam, non-flam.

Albanian

them një gënjeshtër (fib), rënie e daulles (dub), gjepura (apple sauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blether, boloney, bosh, bunco, buncombe, bunk, bunko, claptrap, crap, drivel, drool, eyewash, fiddledeedee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flannel, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, galimatias, gammon, hog-wash, hokum, humbug, jazz, jiggery pokery, moonshine, nonsense, palaver, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, stuff and nonsense, taradiddle, tosh, trash, twaddle, vacuity, waffle, wish-wash), gënjeshtër (circumvention, deceit, deceitfulness, double dealing, fable, fib, fudge, leasing, lie, lurk, mendacity, oner, prevarication, sklent, taradiddle, twister, untruth). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كذبة (deceit, false, falsehood, lie, mendacity, story, tale). (various references)

Bulgarian 

трик (double, jig, skin game, sleight, snare, trepan, trick), измамвам (abuse, befool, beguile, catch, chisel, chouse, clip, cross, dash, defraud, diddle, fix, fob, fool, gaff, go back on, green, gull, hijack, kid, mislead, mock, nobble, overreach, play false, pluck, prey, pull a fast one, put across, put on, screw, sell, shaft, short-change, slip over, spoof, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, trim), измама (bunco, bunko, cheat, chouse, cozenage, cross, deceit, deception, delusion, do, double cross, double dealing, doubling, dupery, falsity, fiddle, foul play, frame up, fraud, gaff, gag, gouge, guile, gyp, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, have on, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, imposition, imposture, indirection, jiggery pokery, jockeying, jugglery, kid, lemon, overreach, plant, pretence, put on, rig, rip off, roguery, sell, sellout, sham, shuffle, simulacrum, skin game, spoof, swindle, take in, thimblerig, trickery, twist), измислица (concoction, excogitation, fable, fabrication, fairy tale, fake, fib, fiction, figment, hoax, invention, make believe, make up, myth, nonentity, tale, tall story, taradiddle). (various references)

Czech

podvod (cheating, con, deceit, deception, dupery, falsehood, fiddle, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gammon, gold brick, guile, imposition, imposture, racket, swindle, take in, trick, trickery). (various references)

French

mensonge. (various references)

Hungarian

nagyzolás (blague, bluster, bung, cracker, frills, gasconade, magniloquence, roistering), nagyzol (gasconade, shoot a line, to boast, to cut it fat, to draw the long bow, to get on one's high horse, to gob, to pile it on, to put it on, to ride one's high horse, to ride the high horse, to shoot a line, to throw the bull). (various references)

Indonesian

mengecoh. (various references)

Italian

frottola (fib), inganno (catch, cheat, craft, deceit, deception, dupery, gammon, guile, hoax, humbug, imposition, imposture, swindle, swindling, trick, trickery, wile), imbroglio (cheat, entanglement, fix, hanky panky, imbroglio, kid, maze, racket, scrape, swindle, swindling, tangle, victimisation, victimization, wangle). (various references)

Pig Latin

amflay.(various references)

Portuguese

falsidade (double-dealing, eyewash, falsehood, falseness, falsity, insincerity, lie, lying, perfidy, prevarication, sham, tale, untruth), sugestão (contrivance, hint, innuendo, insinuation, intimation, proposal, suggestion, whisper), invenção (coinage, contrivance, device, excogitation, fabrication, fiction, figment, finding, gadget, invention, mintage, origination), idéia (cogitation, conceit, concept, conception, contrivance, general, idea, intention, meaning, mind, notion, suggestion, theory, view), dispositivo (apparatus, gadget), capacidade inventiva (contrivance), artifício (artifice, claptrap, come-off, device, fetch, fraud, gimmick, inventiveness, maneuver, manoeuvre, practice, put-off, scheme, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, trickery). (various references)

Romanian

şarlatanie (charlatanry, humbug, imposition, imposture, quackery, skin game). (various references)

Russian 

фальшивка (fabrication, fake), обмануть (cheat, circumvent, deceive, do brown, entrap, go back on, have, hoodwink, overreach, play smb. false, take advantage of, take smb. in). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

laž (crammer, falsehood, lie, sham, story, tale, taradiddle, untruth), izmišljotina (fabrication, fiction, figment), izmišljati (contrive, fabricate). (various references)

Spanish

mentira (counterfeit, deceit, deception, falsehood, fib, invention, juggle, libel, lie, mendacity, prevarication, story, untruth). (various references)

Swedish

falsarium (forgery), lögn (fable, fabrication, falsehood, falsity, invention, lie, tale, untruth, whopper). (various references)

Turkish

yalan (deceit, fabrication, falsehood, falseness, fib, gammon, hollow, invention, lie, made up, mendacious, plumper, prevarication, quack, sham, shave, tale, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tell a lie, telltale, untrue, untruth, untruthful), uydurma (adjustment, apocryphal, arranging, cardboard box, coinage, colorable, concoction, fabled, fabrication, fabulous, fake, false, falsification, fib, fiction, fictitious, fictive, figment, fitting, gold brick, improvisation, improvised, invention, made up, making up, mendacious, out of whole cloth, quack, tosh, trumped-up, tuning, untrue, untruth, untruthful), hile (adulteration, artifice, arts, canard, catch, cheat, cheating, chicane, cobweb, collusion, craft, cross, deceit, deception, decoy, device, do, dodge, doubling, dupery, duplicity, fake, false pretences, false pretenses, finesse, flimflam, fraud, gadget, gaff, gambit, gammon, gimmick, gouge, hanky panky, have, have on, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, hoky-poky, humbug, imposture, jiggery pokery, maneuver, manipulation, manoeuvre, plant, ploy, practice, pretense, rig, rigging, rip off, ruse, sell, sham, sleight of hand, slyness, subterfuge, tortuosity, trick, trickery, wheeling and dealing, wile), davula vurulan tek vuruş. (various references)

Ukrainian

нісенітниця (applesauce, balderdash, bilge, blah, bosh, drivel, flubdub, haver, jiggery pokery, nonsense, shucks, slaver, tommyrot), брехня (bouncer, bung, caulker, crammer, falsehood, falsity, fib, fudge, leasing, lie, lying, spinach, untruth, windy, yap). (various references)

Vietnamese 

chuyện bịa sự đánh lừa. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "FLAM": flambe, flambeau, flambeaus, flambeaux, flambee, flambeed, flambeing, flambes, flamboyance, flamboyances, flamboyancies, flamboyancy, flamboyant, flamboyantly, flamboyants, flame, flamed, flamen, flamenco, flamencos, flamens, flameout, flameouts, flameproof, flameproofed, flameproofer, flameproofers, flameproofing, flameproofs, flamer, flamers, flames, flamethrower, flamethrowers, flamier, flamiest, flamines, flaming, flamingly, flamingo, flamingoes, flamingos, flammabilities, flammability, flammable, flammables, flammed, flamming, flams, flamy. (additional references)

Words ending with "FLAM": flimflam. (additional references)

Words containing "FLAM": aflame, enflame, enflamed, enflames, enflaming, flimflammed, flimflammer, flimflammeries, flimflammers, flimflammery, flimflamming, flimflams, inflame, inflamed, inflamer, inflamers, inflames, inflaming, inflammabilities, inflammability, inflammable, inflammableness, inflammablenesses, inflammables, inflammably, inflammation, inflammations, inflammatorily, inflammatory, nonflammabilities, nonflammability, nonflammable, noninflammable, noninflammatory, oriflamme, oriflammes, preflame, unflamboyant. (additional references)

Misspellings

"FLAM" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Faam, falan, fam, famv, feam, Felim, fiam, Flah, Flama, flamb, flamm, Flaum, flean, flegm, Flem, flim, flm, floam, flom, flum, flym. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lam.

-2 letters: al, am, fa, la, ma.

+1 letter: flame, flams, flamy, fleam.

+2 letters: aflame, aimful, armful, family, famuli, female, flambe, flamed, flamen, flamer, flames, fleams, flyman, formal, fulham, fullam, fulmar, malfed, manful, mayfly.

+3 letters: aliform, amplify, armfuls, armsful, enflame, famulus, females, femoral, flagman, flagmen, flambee, flambes, flamens, flamers, flamier, flaming, flammed, flotsam, foamily, formals, formula, fulhams, fullams, fulmars, harmful, inflame, liftman, malefic, moanful, mudflap, mudflat, wameful, wolfram.