Flimsy means so thin and weak it could fall apart at a touch. A flimsy box, flimsy evidence, flimsy excuse.
Of a physical thing it means insubstantial: flimsy plastic, a flimsy shed. Of an argument or an excuse it means unconvincing, and flimsy evidence and a flimsy pretext are both fixed phrases. Note flimsiness; and that the word's origin is uncertain, possibly from flim-flam, which meant nonsense — so a flimsy excuse may be nonsense twice over.
1adjectiveflimsySo thin and weak it could fall apart at a touch.
“The flimsy tent collapsed as soon as the wind picked up.”
2adjectiveunconvincingUnconvincing, of an argument or excuse.
“He gave a flimsy excuse about his alarm clock, but nobody believed him.”
flimsy is a quality of weakness.
Also accepted in games: fragile
The origin is uncertain, possibly from flim-flam, meaning nonsense or a trick. The word appears in the eighteenth century with no clear ancestry.
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The origin of the adjective is; it is possibly from flim-flam (“(noun) false information presented as true, misinformation, nonsense; poor attempt at deception, confidence trick, pretence; (adjective) frivolous, nonsensical; deceptive; fictitious”) or a film + -sy. The noun and verb are derived from the noun. container refers to the fact that the containers often split along their seams and leaked.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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