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Definition of the day : « palming »

  • As in pass off : verb give because one does not want it
  • As in pilfer : verb steal, embezzle
  • As in secrete : verb hide
  • As in touch : verb make physical contact
  • As in palpate : verb touch
  • As in feel : verb touch, stroke
  • As in hold : verb have in one's hands, possession; grasp
Example sentences :
  • Great skill in palming is necessary for their successful use.
  • Extract from : « The Slang Dictionary » by John Camden Hotten
  • Have this in one of your pockets, where it will not get crushed, ready for palming.
  • Extract from : « More Conjuring » by Hercat
  • The notion then occurred to Rosenbaum of palming off another skull for Haydn's.
  • Extract from : « Haydn » by J. Cuthbert Hadden
  • This seemed to dispose of the theory that he was palming off illegitimate money.
  • Extract from : « The Triumphs of Eugne Valmont » by Robert Barr
  • He had 169been palming himself off on the youngsters as an unfortunate, out of work, and they had been helping him.
  • Extract from : « Roy Blakeley in the Haunted Camp » by Percy Keese Fitzhugh
  • In charity for the Frenchman's taste, I have sometimes thought the vender of these little barkers was palming a quiz upon me.
  • Extract from : « Eight days in New Orleans in February, 1847 » by Albert James Pickett
  • Let us hope, that the catastrophe was not due to any unhandsome attempt at palming off cheap work on "the recording angel."
  • Extract from : « A Decade of Italian Women, vol. I (of 2) » by T. Adolphus Trollope
  • Of all the fictions which he succeeded in palming off for truths none is more instructive than that admirable ghost, Mrs. Veal.
  • Extract from : « Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) » by Leslie Stephen
  • Palming sometimes refers to secreting money or rings in the hand.
  • Extract from : « A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words » by A London Antiquary
  • You see at last I'm not a suspicious rascal, however, for I don't suspect you of palming a false grand-daughter upon me.'
  • Extract from : « The Absentee » by Maria Edgeworth