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bam
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun bam has 2 senses
- bam(n = noun.location) Array - an ancient city in southeastern Iran; destroyed by an earthquake in 2003; Array is a kind of city, metropolis, urban center
- bam(n = noun.event) bang, blast, clap, eruption - a sudden very loud noise; Array is a kind of noise
is a part of iran, islamic republic of iran, persia
has particulars: water hammer
CIDE DICTIONARY
bam, n. [Prob. a contr. of bamboozle.].
An imposition; a cheat; a hoax. Garrick. [1913 Webster]
"To relieve the tedium, he kept plying them with all manner of bams."
[1913 Webster]
bam, v. t.
To cheat; to wheedle. Foote. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
bam
Falsehood
N falsehood, falseness, falsity, falsification, deception, untruth, guile, lying, untruth, guile, lying, misrepresentation, mendacity, perjury, false swearing, forgery, invention, fabrication, subreption, covin, perversion of truth, suppression of truth, suppressio veri, perversion, distortion, false coloring, exaggeration, prevarication, equivocation, shuffling, fencing, evasion, fraud, suggestio falsi, mystification, simulation, dissimulation, dissembling, deceit, blague, sham, pretense, pretending, malingering, lip homage, lip service, mouth honor, hollowness, mere show, mere outside, duplicity, double dealing, insincerity, hypocrisy, cant, humbug, jesuitism, jesuitry, pharisaism, Machiavelism, organized hypocrisy, crocodile tears, mealy-mouthedness, quackery, charlatanism, charlatanry, gammon, bun-kum, bumcombe, flam, bam, flimflam, cajolery, flattery, Judas kiss, perfidy, il volto sciolto i pensieri stretti, unfairness, artfulness, misstatement, false, deceitful, mendacious, unveracious, fraudulent, dishonest, faithless, truthless, trothless, unfair, uncandid, hollow-hearted, evasive, uningenuous, disingenuous, hollow, sincere, Parthis mendacior, forsworn, artificial, contrived, canting, hypocritical, jesuitical, pharisaical, tartuffish, Machiavelian, double, double tongued, double faced, double handed, double minded, double hearted, double dealing, Janus faced, smooth-faced, smooth spoken, smooth tongued, plausible, mealy-mouthed, affected, collusive, collusory, artful, perfidious, spurious, untrue, falsified, covinous, falsely, a la tartufe, with a double tongue, silly, blandae mendacia lingua, falsus in uno falsus in omnibus, I give him joy that's awkward at a lie, la mentira tiene las piernas cortas, O what a goodly outside falsehood hath.
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