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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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flap
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flæp/
- Rhymes: -æp
Etymology 1
From Middle English flap, flappe (“a slap; blow; buffet; fly-flap; something flexible or loose; flap”), related to Middle Dutch flabbe (“a blow; slap on the face; fly-flap; flap”) (modern Dutch flap (“flap”)), Middle Low German flabbe, vlabbe, flebbe, from the verb (see below). Related also to English flab and flabby.
Noun
flap (plural flaps)
- Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
- A hinged leaf.
- (aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane.
- A side fin of a ray.
- Synonym: wing
- The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.
- A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:commotion
- (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound [[?]] in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
- Synonym: tap
- (surgery) A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
- (veterinary medicine) A disease in the lips of horses.
- (slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) The labia, the vulva.
- (obsolete) A blow or slap (especially to the face).
- 1450, Palladius on Husbondrie?
- Ware the horn and heels lest they fling a flap to thee.
- a1500 The Prose Merlin?
- The squire lift up his hand and gave him such a flap that all they in the chapel might it hear.
- 1450, Palladius on Husbondrie?
- (obsolete) A young prostitute.
- 1631, James Mabbe, Celestina IX. 110
- Fall to your flap, my Masters, kisse and clip. […] Come hither, you foule flappes.
- 1631, James Mabbe, Celestina IX. 110
Derived terms
- cat flap
- (aeroplane): flaperon
- flap seat
Translations
See also
- flap on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- fold
- lappet
Etymology 2
From Middle English flappen (“to flap, clap, slap, strike”), related to Dutch flappen (“to flap”), German Low German flappen (“to flap”), German flappen (“to flap”), Dutch flabberen (“to flit, flap”). Probably ultimately imitative.
Verb
flap (third-person singular simple present flaps, present participle flapping, simple past and past participle flapped)
- (transitive) To move (something broad and loose) up and down.
- The crow slowly flapped its wings.
- (intransitive) To move loosely back and forth.
- The flag flapped in the breeze.
- (computing, telecommunications, intransitive) Of a resource or network destination: to be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.
Translations
Derived terms
- flapper
- flappingly
- unflappable
Anagrams
- PLAF
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch flabbe, probably ultimately imitative.
Pronunciation
Noun
flap m (plural flappen, diminutive flapje n)
- flap (something flexible that is loose)
- (colloquial) banknote
Derived terms
- appelflap
- flappentap
- flappen tappen
Volapük
Noun
flap (nominative plural flaps)
- blow, hit
Declension
Derived terms
- flapan
- flapön
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