Flammed

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Deceived or tricked someone through a cunning falsehood or misleading story
2. Cheated another person by means of a trick, lie or deliberately false pretense
3. Took in or fooled a person with a deception, usually by playing on their credulity

Etymology: "Flammed" is the past tense and past participle of "flam," a verb meaning to trick someone with lies. Its root is a 17th-century word that probably descends from "flim-flam," a term for nonsense or deceit. That word may come from a dialect term or from Scandinavian, and it is often linked to Old Norse "flim," meaning mockery or lampooning. Some scholars also treat "flim-flam" as imitative, a word built to sound like the light, rapid chatter of a con artist.

Synonyms: deceive, trick, hoax