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flim-flam (n.)
also
flimflam
, 1530s, a contemptuous echoic construction, perhaps connected to some unrecorded dialectal word from Scandinavian (compare Old Norse
flim
"a lampoon"). From 1650s as a verb. Related:
Flim-flammer
.
