flim-flam

短语

n. 胡说, 胡扯；欺骗；荒唐 vt. 欺骗, 诈骗 a. 荒唐的；胡说的

发音

US /ˈflɪmflæm/

词形变化

flim-flams 复数

别名

flimflam

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Misinformation; bunkum; false information presented as true.

    可数 不可数

    Most reports of supernatural occurrences turn out to be flim-flam when carefully investigated.

  2. 2.

    Confidence game, con game.

    可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    Table tennis.

    古体 可数 不可数

词汇关系

名词

同义词 8

con sting hustle bunco bunko confidence game confidence trick con game

上位词 4

cheat fraud rig swindle

词源

Ultimately a sound-symbolic reduplication, 1538 as noun, 1660 as verb. Perhaps from a dialectal word or North Germanic/Scandinavian; compare Old Norse flim (“lampoon, mockery”).

来源：wiktionary