ETYMOLOGY
from be- + flum;
perhaps influenced by Scots blaflum, bleflum (to cajole)
EXAMPLE
“…that are but ill settled yet, till they durst na on ony errand whatsoever gang ower the door-stane after gloaming, for fear John Heatherblutter, or some siccan dare-the diel, should tak a baff at them: then, on the hand, I beflum’d them wi’ Colonel Talbot – wad they offer to keep up the price again the Duke’s friend? did na they ken wha was master?…”
From: Waverley; or, ‘Tis Sixty Years Since,
By Walter Scott, 1814
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