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Glammed vs Flammed - What's the difference?

glammed | flammed |

As verbs the difference between glammed and flammed

is that glammed is (glam) while flammed is (flam).

glammed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (glam)

    • glam

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • glamour

    • Adjective

  • glamorous

    • See also

    * glitz

    Verb

    (glamm)
  • To make glamorous or more glamorous

    • Usage notes

    Usually used in the phrasal verb "glam up"

    flammed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (flam)

    • 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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