flodge

English

Etymology

Suggested to derive from camouflage.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /flɑd͡ʒ/

Verb

flodge (third-person singular simple present flodges, present participle flodging, simple past and past participle flodged)

1. (chiefly African-American Vernacular) To hide or misrepresent the truth; to lie.
   • 2003 March 26, Mylia Jaza, Life Is Beautiful: La Vita E Bella, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 131:

     Knowing you don't like me but saying you do, telling lies / You flodging dogs!

   • 2006, Johanna Edwards, Your Big Break, Penguin, →ISBN, page 155:

     Bossman: Tell me about it. At first, I thought you were flodging. / Dani M: flodging? / Bossman: It means lying. […]

   • (Can we date this quote?), Akuma Got Bars, ON GOD 9:

     It's so many thotties shawty you ain't gotta flodge to me. Put that on god and lie to me[?] you make me sick

   • 2007, Three 6 Mafia, Touched Wit it:

     Never flodged on how I lived. Fight a nigga over a bitch.