to fob off, to get rid of a request, a caller, visitor etc., often by means of pretext
çekim: geçmiş wimmelte ab · ortaç abgewimmelt · şimdiki wimmelt ab · ulaç abwimmelnd
eş: ausschlagen, loswerden, zurückweisen
köken: 19th century. Ostensibly from ab- (“off”) + wimmeln (“to teem, to move in a confused crowd”). The meaning could perhaps be understood as “to keep such a crowd away, move out of it”. However, a more satisfying interpretation as “to wave aside” can be based on cognate Low German wiëmeln, wemeln, which also has the sense “to wag, wave”. Compare German abwinken (“wave aside”), abwiegeln (“appease”),…
aile: Abwimmlung
Die Nachbarn wollten mich schon wieder zu ihrer Teerunde einladen, aber ich habe sie möglichst freundlich abgewimmelt.