frammis

Noun

1. Synonym of gizmo.
   • Right now all his spare time is spent at Moseleys, roller skating for hours on end. "Foozle the frammis snaffle," says Bob, "or don't you like it?" - 1938, The Year Book of the Class of 1938: Dedham High School, page...
   • Are you satisfied that your multiplicative inverse rests securely on its Cartesian coordinates with its cosecant separated from the frammis by the rigid transformation of its orthogonal projection? - 1938, The American...
   • "Frammis on the Antispode": The doubletalk heading this paragraph takes the sting out of Mr. Ruark's comment, even if his gay colored foulard Sinatra bow tie didn't contradict his comment[.] - 1947, Men's Wear, volume...

   Synonyms: gizmo

2. A confidence trick; a swindle.
   • And what they added up to was curtains - for him. He'd really stepped into something this time: a Grade-A jam, an honest-to-Hannah, double-distilled frammis. - 1957 May, Jim Thompson, Alfred Hitchcock's Suspense...