flim
English
editNoun
editflim (plural flims)
- Clipping of flim-flam (“confidence trick”).
Jamaican Creole
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editNoun
editflim (plural flim dem, quantified flim)
- film
- Tek out di flim outta di camera.
- Take the film out of the camera.
- 2009, Richard Koss, Giamaica (in Italian), →ISBN, page 348:
- “I giamaicani spesso invertono l'ordine delle lettere o le cambiano, dicendo per esempio flim al posto di 'film', o cerfiticket invece di 'certificate' (certificato). […] ”
- Jamaicans often invert the order of letters or change them, saying, for example, flim instead of 'film', or cerfiticket instead of certificate […]
See also
editMiddle English
editNoun
editflim
- Alternative form of flum
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