What's the difference between flimflam and flimflammery?

Flimflam


Definition:

  • (n.) A freak; a trick; a lie.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So here we are in frosty, socially conscious Poplar, passing tinsel-garlanded forceps to the doughty district nurses of Nonnatus House as they tend to a flurry of imperilled postwar flimflams.

Flimflammery


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Johnson, wearing Church's brogues, an M&S tie and a suit by a Savile Row tailor ("can't actually remember his name, jolly nice chap though") extolled the virtues of British tailoring, which in the Johnson rendering "was developed as a direct response to the flimflammery of French fashions."

Words possibly related to "flimflam"

Words possibly related to "flimflammery"