"frammis" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1938, The Year Book of the Class of 1938: Dedham High School, page 33, column 1:",
          "text": "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?\"",
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          "ref": "1938, The American Biology Teacher, volume 24, page 341, column 2:",
          "text": "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?",
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          "ref": "1947, Men's Wear, volume 114, page 90, column 1:",
          "text": "\"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[.]",
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          "ref": "1949 January 1, Collier's Magazine, page 56, column 4:",
          "text": "\"Listen, I caulderoled the nurse for a minute and sneaked down the frammis.\" \"What?\" \"I had to talk to you.\"",
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          "ref": "1963 May 14, Mademoiselle, page 225, column 2:",
          "text": "But how can they react helpfully to orders that sound like, \"Shift the shackle on the frammis to the glotz\"?",
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          "ref": "1957 May, Jim Thompson, Alfred Hitchcock's Suspense Magazine, page 18, column 1:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "A confidence trick; a swindle."
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          "text": "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?\"",
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          "ref": "1947, Men's Wear, volume 114, page 90, column 1:",
          "text": "\"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[.]",
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          "text": "\"Listen, I caulderoled the nurse for a minute and sneaked down the frammis.\" \"What?\" \"I had to talk to you.\"",
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