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Flam vs Flaw - What's the difference?

flam | flaw |

As nouns the difference between flam and flaw

is that flam is flame while flaw is (obsolete) a flake, fragment, or shiver or flaw can be a sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration.

As a verb flaw is

to add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective.

flam

English

Etymology 1

17th century; from flim-flam, Flimflam / Claptrap], [http://www.word-detective.com The Word Detective, 2009–04–13 itself perhaps from a dialectal word or Scandinavian; compare Old Norse

Noun

(en noun)
  • A freak or whim.
  • A falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion.
  • * All pretences to the contrary are nothing but cant and cheat, flam and delusion. 1692
  • * South
    • A perpetual abuse and flam upon posterity.

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To deceive with a falsehood.
  • * South
    • God is not to be flammed off with lies.

    Etymology 2

    Imitative.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Two taps (a grace note followed by a full-volume tap) played very close together in order to sound like one slightly longer note.
    • Derived terms
    * flam paradiddle, flamadiddle

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    flaw

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) flawe, .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A flake, fragment, or shiver.
  • (obsolete) A thin cake, as of ice.
  • A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.
    • There is a flaw in that knife.
    That vase has a flaw .
  • * Shakespeare
    • This heart / Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws .
  • A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
  • * South
    • Has not this also its flaws and its dark side?
  • A defect or error in a contract or other document which may make the document invalid.
    • a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * tragic flaw

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective.
  • To become imperfect or defective.

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration.
  • * Milton
    • Snow, and hail, and stormy gust and flaw .
  • * Tennyson
    • Like flaws in summer laying lusty corn.
  • A storm of short duration.
  • A sudden burst of noise and disorder; a tumult; uproar; a quarrel.
  • * Dryden
    • And deluges of armies from the town / Came pouring in; I heard the mighty flaw .

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