Flimflam

Definition: Flimflam

Flimflam

Noun

1. A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Note: Flimflam \Flim"flam\, noun. [Compare to Flam.]. (references)

Synonyms: Flimflam

Caprice

Noun: caprice, fancy, humor; whim, whimsy, whimsey, whimwham; crotchet, capriccio, quirk, freak, maggot, fad, vagary, prank, fit, flimflam, escapade, boutade, wild-goose chase; capriciousness; Adjective: kink.

Deception

Verb: deceive, take in; defraud, cheat, jockey, do, cozen, diddle, nab, chouse, play one false, bilk, cully, jilt, bite, pluck, swindle, victimize; abuse; mystify; blind one's eyes; blindfold, hoodwink; throw dust into the eyes; dupe, gull, hoax, fool, befool, bamboozle, flimflam, hornswoggle; trick.

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.

Books

• Mathematical Fallacies, Flaws and Flimflam (reference)

• The Flimflam Man (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

mashtroj (bamboozle, befool, beguile, besot, bilk, cheat, chicane, chisel, cozen, deceive, defalcate, defraud, delude, diddle, do, finagle, fleece, fob, fool, fudge, gyp, hocus, hoodwink, hose, impose, jockey, juggle, lead on, mislead, mump, nobble, overreach, palter, queer, ready up, shortchange, swindle, take advantage of, take for a ride), mashtrim (bilk, blind, bluff, bunco, bunko, caper, cheat, chicanery, chouse, circumvention, con, cozenage, crammer, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, defalcation, delusion, dodge, double dealing, duplicity, fake, false pretences, falsity, fob, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gag, gammon, gimmick, guile, gyp, humbug, imposition, imposture, jiggery pokery, juggler, jugglery, juggling, leasing, lie, manipulation, overreach, quackery, racket, racketeering, rascaldom, rascality, rig, roguery, sham, swindle, take in, trick), gjepura (apple sauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blether, boloney, bosh, bunco, buncombe, bunk, bunko, claptrap, crap, drivel, drool, eyewash, fiddledeedee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flam, flannel, flapdoodle, 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). (various references)

Czech

zradit (betray, desert, fink, rat, sell). (various references)

Hungarian

ostobaság (bunk, bushwa, crassness, doltishness, fatuity, fatuousness, Folly, foolery, foolishness, guff, haver, inanity, nonsense, piffle, rot, rubbish, silliness, stupidity, tomfoolery, tommy rot, tosh), kiforgat valakit valamibõl. (various references)

Pig Latin

imflamflay.(various references)

Portuguese

mistificar (bamboozle, green, gull, hoax, hocus, hocus-pocus, humbug, mystify, spoof, trick, wangle), enganar (abuse, avoid, bamboozle, befool, beguile, belie, blind, bluff, cheat, chisel, chouse, cod, cozen, deceive, delude, diddle, double, double-cross, duck, dupe, err, fake, falsify, finesse, fob, foist, fool, fox, gag, gammon, gouge, green, gull, gyp, ha, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, hoodwink, hum, humbug, impose, inveigle, jink, jockey, juggle, lace, lie, lurch, mislead, mock, mystify, out-jockey, overreach, palm, rip off, skin, sklent, spoof, take in, trepan, trick, victimize, wangle, wile). (various references)

Russian 

вздор (all my eye, balderdash, baloney, blah, boloney, bosh, fiddlesticks, fudge, gammon, humbug, jiggery pokery, kibosh, mush, nonsense, poppycock, rot, rubbish, tommy rot, tommyrot, tosh), обманывать (befool, beguile, bilk, cheat, deceive, deceiving, defraud, delude, disappoint, do, double cross, fob, fool into thinking, gag, gull, hocus, hoodwink, impose, jockey, juggle, kid, mump, practise deceit, practise deception, prey, pull a fast one, swindle, victimize). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prevariti (bamboozle, beguile, bilk, cheat, chicane, chisel, chouse, circumvent, con, deceive, diddle, double cross, fool, get round, gyp, hoodwink, mulct, rook, rope, rope in, screw, set up, skunk, stick, string along, take in, trick, victimize), prevara (bilk, blind, bubble, cheat, chicanery, confidence trick, deceit, deception, dodge, double cross, dupery, eyewash, fake, fraud, gammon, guile, gyp, plant, racket, ruse, setup, trick, trumpery). (various references)

Spanish

decir algo. (various references)

Swedish

struntprat (all my eye, all my eyes, apple sauce, baloney, eyewash, falderal, fiddlededee, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flubdub, humbug, jargon, nonsense, poppycock, stuff, tosh, trumpery), lurendrejeri (bunko, bunkos, fraud). (various references)

Thai

ความหลอกลวง. (various references)

Turkish

zırva (balderdash, baloney, bilge, blather, blether, boloney, bosh, bull, bunk, bunkum, eyewash, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flapdoodle, gammon, garbage, gassing, hooey, jabber wocky, nonsense, punk, raving, ravings, rot, rubbish, stuff, tommyrot, twaddle), saçmalık (absurdity, applesauce, balderdash, bilge, blather, blatherskite, blether, bosh, drivel, extravagance, eyewash, farce, fatuity, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flubdub, footle, gab, galimatias, gassing, gibberish, guff, hog-wash, hokum, hooey, inanity, ineptitude, ineptness, insanity, irrationality, lark, malarkey, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, shenanigan, silliness, spinach, stuff, talkee-talkee, the irrational, trash, triviality, twaddle, vacuity, whimsicality, whimsicalness, wind, wishy-wash), kandırmak (argue, bait, bamboozle, befool, beguile, cheat, con, cozen, deceive, delude, diddle, dish, dissuade, dupe, entice, fast-talk, finagle, fool, gammon, get round, gyp, hornswoggle, induce, intrigue, inveigle, jockey, jolly, kid, lead on, lie, persuade, play with, put across, put over, rope in, sell smb. a pup, serve a trick, spoof, stall off, stick, string, string along, stuff smb., take in, trick, wheedle), 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, flam, 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), dolap (cabal, cabinet, cheating, closet, collusion, cuddy, cupboard, dodge, dope, doubling, frame up, game, hutch, imposture, intrigue, jiggery pokery, machination, machinations, maneuver, manoeuvre, ramp, repository, ruse, sell, trap, wardrobe, water wheel, wile), dolandırmak (bilk, bunco, cheat, chisel, con, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, do down, do in, double cross, gammon, gold brick, gull, gyp, have, hornswoggle, jockey, Nick, nobble, racketeer, rook, rotate, sell smb. a gold brick, sell smb. a pup, spoof, swindle, take in), boş lâf (applesauce, babble, balderdash, bosh, bunkum, comment, empty words, falderal, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, flubdub, flummery, froth, fudge, gab, galimatias, garbage, gas, guff, haver, hokum, hooey, hot air, inanity, jazz, lark, moonshine, palaver, poppycock, punk, routine, small talk, talky-talk, tripe, vaporings, vapourings, waffle, wind, wishy-wash). (various references)

Ukrainian

обдурювати (befool, bilk, cheat, chouse, cod, cog, counterfeit, deceive, doodle, dupe, gull, hoax, hocus, hoodwink, humbug, jockey, juggle, prey, put upon, queer, sell short). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "flimflam": flimflammed, flimflammer, flimflammeries, flimflammers, flimflammery, flimflamming, flimflams. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Flimflam" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: flammula, Flamula. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: flail, maill.

-4 letters: alif, fail, fall, fila, fill, film, flam, imam, lima, mail, maim, mall, malm, miff, mill.

-5 letters: aff, ail, aim, all, ami, fil, iff, ill, lam, mil, mim.

+1 letter: flimflams.

+3 letters: flimflammed, flimflammer.

+4 letters: flimflammers, flimflammery, flimflamming.