flam

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A freak or whim; an idle fancy. countable,uncountable
  2. Two taps (a grace note followed by a full-volume tap) played very close together in order to sound like one slightly longer note.
  3. A falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext archaic,countable,uncountable
    — all Pretences, or Pleas of Conscience, to the contrary, are nothing but Cant and Cheat, Flam and Delusion.
动词 v.
  1. To deceive with a falsehood. obsolete
    — God is not to be flammed off with Lyes.
  2. To play (notes as) a flam. ambitransitive
    — We will commence to flam the notes now, as most of them are flammed when you play a March.

词形变化

flams plural flams present,singular,third-person flamming participle,present flammed participle,past flammed past flams plural flams present,singular,third-person flamming participle,present flammed participle,past flammed past

词源

词源 1
17th century; from flim-flam, itself perhaps from a dialectal word or Scandinavian; compare Old Norse flim (“lampoon, mockery”).
词源 2
Imitative.
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