flummery
noun
oatmeal or flour boiled with water until thick.
flummeries
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pluralof flummery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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It would have been filled with fruit, flummeries or blancmanges, biscuits, gateaux, jellies and ice cream.
From BBC ● May 10, 2013
Dishes included white soup, partridge pie and jelly desserts or flummeries.
From BBC ● May 10, 2013
There were plenty of ways to do this; all sorts of accounting flummeries had already been perpetrated, but a final tweak was needed.
From Time Magazine Archive
The flattery, handholding and creative fudgery that are at the heart of diplomacy are the very sort of fancy-pants flummeries that the President abhors.
From Time Magazine Archive
Great men are not always wise; even intellectual veterans like Dr. Johnson, and others I can mention, if you only give me time, have their hallucinations, fads, fancies, and flummeries.
From Our Bessie by Rosa Nouchette Carey
