“blaflum”的英英意思

单词	blaflum
释义	▪ I. ˈblaflum, n. Sc. Also bleflum, blephum, blawflum, blafum. Deception, imposition, hoax. a1661Rutherford Lett. (1765) i. ii. (Jam.) Many..when they go to take out their faith, they take out a fair nothing..a bleflume.a1662R. Baillie Lett. (1775) I. 201 (Jam.) All his act was but a blephum.1788E. Picken Poems 63 (Jam.) Fine blaw-flums o' teas That grow abroad.1880Patterson Antrim & Down Gloss. (E.D.S.), Blaflum, blafum, nonsense; something said to mislead. Hence blaflumry, blaeflummery. 1819A. Balfour Campbell I. 328 (Jam.) A' that blaeflummery that's makin sic a haliballoo in the warld. ▪ II. ˈblaflum, v. trans. Sc. To impose upon. 1728Ramsay Wks. (1848) I. 221 The chair Which bears him to blaflum the fair.

　

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