The word for today is…
flimflam (noun) – 1. Nonsense; humbug.
Source : The Free Dictionary
Etymology : Also flim-flam, 1530s, a contemptuous echoic construction, perhaps connected to some unrecorded dialectal word from Scandinavian (compare Old Norse flim “a lampoon”). From 1650s as a verb.
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