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flab
English
Etymology
Back-formation from flabby.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flæb/
- Rhymes: -æb
Noun
flab (usually uncountable, plural flabs)
- (informal) Soft, loose flesh on a person's body; fat.
Synonyms
- spare tire (North America)
- spare tyre (United Kingdom)
- roll of fat
Translations
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flam
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flæm/
Etymology 1
17th century; from flim-flam, itself perhaps from a dialectal word or Scandinavian; compare Old Norse flim (“lampoon, mockery”).
Noun
flam (countable and uncountable, plural flams)
- A freak or whim; an idle fancy.
- (archaic) A falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext
- Synonyms: deception, delusion
- 1692, Robert South, "A Further Account of the Nature and Measures of Conscience", in Forty Eight Sermons and Discourses on Several Subjects and Occasions (published 1697)
- all Pretences, or Pleas of Conscience, to the contrary, are nothing but Cant and Cheat, Flam and Delusion.
- a perpetual abuse and flam upon posterity
Translations
Verb
flam (third-person singular simple present flams, present participle flamming, simple past and past participle flammed)
- (obsolete) To deceive with a falsehood.
- God is not to be flammed off with Lyes.
Translations
Etymology 2
Imitative.
Noun
flam (plural flams)
- (drumming) Two taps (a grace note followed by a full-volume tap) played very close together in order to sound like one slightly longer note.
Derived terms
- flam paradiddle, flamadiddle
Verb
flam (third-person singular simple present flams, present participle flamming, simple past and past participle flammed)
- (drumming, transitive, intransitive) To play (notes as) a flam.
- 1923, Edward B. Straight, The Straight System of Modern Drumming: The "Natural Way" to Play Drums, page 10:
- We will commence to flam the notes now, as most of them are flammed when you play a March.
- 1975, George Shipway, Free Lance, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P (?ISBN):
- Drums ruffled and flammed.
- 1923, Edward B. Straight, The Straight System of Modern Drumming: The "Natural Way" to Play Drums, page 10:
References
Anagrams
- FMLA
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?flam/
Noun
flam m (plural flams)
- flan (custard dessert)
Further reading
- “flam” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “flam” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “flam” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “flam” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Volapük
Noun
flam (nominative plural flams)
- flame
Declension
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