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語源 1

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

名詞

flam (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 flams)

1. A freak or whim; an idle fancy.
2. (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.

   • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), 6th edition, London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, OCLC 21766567:

     a perpetual abuse and flam upon posterity

動詞

flam (三人称単数 現在形 flams, 現在分詞 flamming, 過去形および過去分詞形 flammed)

1. (obsolete) To deceive with a falsehood.
   • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), 6th edition, London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, OCLC 21766567:

     God is not to be flammed off with Lyes.

語源 2

Imitative.

名詞

flam (複数形 flams)

1. (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.

派生語

• flam paradiddle, flamadiddle

動詞

flam (三人称単数 現在形 flams, 現在分詞 flamming, 過去形および過去分詞形 flammed)

1. (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.

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