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  • noun Misinformation; bunkum; false information presented as true.
  • noun confidence game, con game
  • noun archaic table tennis

Etymologies

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1538 as noun, 1660 as verb. By reduplication. Perhaps from a dialectical word or Scandinavian; compare Old Norse flim ("lampoon, mockery").

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