flim-flamとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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”).

発音

• 韻: -æm
• IPA: /ˈflɪmflæm/

名詞

flim-flam (countable and uncountable, plural flim-flams)

1. Misinformation; bunkum; false information presented as true.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:nonsense

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

2. Confidence game, con game.
   • 2025 November 22, David Frum, “Marjorie Taylor Greene Came So Close to Getting the Joke”, in The Atlantic‎, archived from the original on 22 November 2025:

     Those who got the joke understood that all of the city’s talk of ideas and principles was flimflam to conceal self-enrichment at the public’s expense. Those who didn’t, didn’t.

3. (archaic) Table tennis.

派生語

• flim-flam man (“confidence trickster”)
• flam
• flim

参照

• Flimflam / Claptrap, The Word Detective, 2009–04–13

Further reading

• flim-flam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

名詞

flimflam (countable and uncountable, plural flimflams)

1. Alternative form of flim-flam.

動詞

flimflam (third-person singular simple present flimflams, present participle flimflamming, simple past and past participle flimflammed)

1. To swindle or cheat.

派生語