This week’s theme
Reduplicatives

This week’s words
razzle-dazzle
hobnob
artsy-fartsy
flimflam
lardy-dardy

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PRONUNCIATION:

(FLIM-flam)

MEANING:

noun:	1. Nonsense.
	2. Deception.
verb tr.:	1. To deceive.
	2. To swindle.

ETYMOLOGY:

A reduplication, probably of the Old Norse flim (mockery). Earliest documented use: 1538.

USAGE:

“James Stewart, a business columnist for The Times, noted that Citigroup’s flimflam made ‘Goldman Sachs mortgage traders look like Boy Scouts.’”
Thomas Friedman; Did You Hear the One About the Bankers?; The New York Times; Oct 29, 2011.

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