Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Deceit; flattery.
  • noun Nonsense; flummery.

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Examples

  • “I wanted no glamoury flum tricks of a Profligate of Canny to diddle my sire; I have blaze enough to keep him charmed, and since the lighting I burn even heavier.”

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • “I wanted no glamoury flum tricks of a Profligate of Canny to diddle my sire; I have blaze enough to keep him charmed, and since the lighting I burn even heavier.”

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • “I wanted no glamoury flum tricks of a Profligate of Canny to diddle my sire; I have blaze enough to keep him charmed, and since the lighting I burn even heavier.”

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • By the left way men go by Damascus and by the flum Jordan.

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Norweye, frere Seint Olaf, ariva al flum de Tine a Nof Chastel ou plus de Ve granz neofs, a ki le connte Tostin, le frere le rey

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • "I don't suppose he's ever been flum - | moved by anything or anyone."

    The Fateful Bargain Neels, Betty 1989

  • For your wheedling flum, till it fleeched my self from me.

    Krindlesyke Wilfrid Wilson Gibson 1920

  • Sagittal section of vertebral canal to show the lower end of the medulla spinalis and the flum terminale.

    Illustrations. Fig. 1213 1918

  • I'd heard him say often about fool-flum talk and feather-headed fellows and things of that sort.

    Kitty Canary Kate Langley Bosher 1898

  • He cares no more for flum-foolishness than I do, which is why we have so much fun over the efforts certain mothers we know make to help their daughters get married, and we've decided to be failures as social successes and enjoy ourselves.

    Kitty Canary Kate Langley Bosher 1898

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  • Flum is a fluffernutter and ham sandwich.

    Hey Sue would you like another flum sandwich?

    April 16, 2020