Lammed vs Flammed - What's the difference?
lammed | flammed |
(lam)
Used in the expression on the lam to mean that a person is fleeing law enforcement, possibly in hiding.
To beat or thrash
(flam)
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
(obsolete) To deceive with a falsehood.
* South
Two taps (a grace note followed by a full-volume tap) played very close together in order to sound like one slightly longer note.
As verbs the difference between lammed and flammed
is that lammed is past tense of lam while flammed is past tense of flam.lammed
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*lam
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lemja.Noun
(-)Verb
Derived terms
* lambasteEtymology 2
(etyl)Anagrams
* * ----flammed
English
Verb
(head)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 perpetual abuse and flam upon posterity.
Verb
- God is not to be flammed off with lies.