flunkern

== German == === Etymology === Borrowed from German Low German [Term?]. The original meaning is “to gleam, move quickly”. Compare flink. The meaning “to boast, stretch the truth” (probably from “want to shine, be brilliant”) already developed in Low German. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈflʊŋkɐn/ Hyphenation: flun‧kern === Verb === flunkern (weak, third-person singular present flunkert, past tense flunkerte, past participle geflunkert, auxiliary haben) to tell harmless lies, to brag in an exaggerating way, to fib ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Synonyms ==== (tell lies): schwindeln, aufschneiden ==== Derived terms ==== Flunkern, Flunkerer, Flunkerei, Geflunker flunkernd, geflunkert anflunkern === Further reading === “flunkern”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “flunkern” in Duden online “flunkern” in OpenThesaurus.de “flunkern” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon