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pam off (third-person singular simple present pams off, present participle pamming off, simple past and past participle pammed off)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of palm off.
    • 1861, Vanity Fair - Volume 3, page 65:
      Look out for them Charletons! My Hare stuff is the grice of a furclad animal, name of which kept secred. The grice pammed off by the Charletons is frecuently that of the “fretfull Porkyoupine.”
    • 1898, Elijah P. Brown, Ciderville Folks as Seen by Silas Ganderfoot, page 209:
      In fact he was a poor mizrable kritter that a gipsy had pammed off on me by sum of the slickest lyin that was ever dun outside of a court house, and I was ankshus to trade him off for most anything, to save havin to winter him.
    • 1919, Journal of the Outdoor Life - Volume 16, page 43:
      I wasn't gone to half no band box pammed off on me Sid, an I guess she seen it after wile.
    • 1930, S. William Moore, The Collar of Brass, page 89:
      Yea, as I kill this gulp o' Taos Lightnin' pammed off on us as vino, in like manner will he extinguish you.
    • 1941, Jesse Stuart, Men of the Mountains, page 154:
      Got you over there to work and pammed a pig off on you that is not worth a dime when you was to get a quarter.