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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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flaw
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English flawe, flay (“a flake of fire or snow, spark, splinter”), probably from Old Norse flaga (“a flag or slab of stone, flake”), from Proto-Germanic *flag? (“a layer of soil”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl?k- (“broad, flat”). Cognate with Icelandic flaga (“flake”), Swedish flaga (“flake, scale”), Danish flage (“flake”), Middle Low German vlage (“a layer of soil”), Old English fl?h (“a frament, piece”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?fl??/
- (US) IPA(key): /?fl?/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /?fl?/
- Rhymes: -??
- Homophone: floor (in non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
Noun
flaw (plural flaws)
- (obsolete) A flake, fragment, or shiver.
- (obsolete) A thin cake, as of ice.
- A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.
- A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
- Has not this also its flaws and its dark side?
- (in particular) An inclusion, stain, or other defect of a diamond or other gemstone.
- (law) A defect or error in a contract or other document which may make the document invalid or ineffective.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:defect
Derived terms
- flawful
- flawless
- flawsome
- tragic flaw
Translations
Verb
flaw (third-person singular simple present flaws, present participle flawing, simple past and past participle flawed)
- (transitive) To add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective.
- (intransitive) To become imperfect or defective; to crack or break.
Translations
Etymology 2
Probably Middle Dutch vl?ghe or Middle Low German vl?ge. Or, of North Germanic origin, from Swedish flaga (“gust of wind”), from Old Norse flaga; all from Proto-Germanic *flag?n-. See modern Dutch vlaag (“gust of wind”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fl??/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
flaw (plural flaws)
- A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration; windflaw.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Marriage of Geraint
- Like flaws in summer laying lusty corn.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Marriage of Geraint
- A storm of short duration.
- A sudden burst of noise and disorder
- Synonyms: tumult, uproar, quarrel
Translations
References
Anagrams
- AFLW, WAFL
Sranan Tongo
Verb
flaw
- To faint.
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