flummery
Americannoun
PLURAL
flummeries-
oatmeal or flour boiled with water until thick.
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fruit custard or blancmange usually thickened with cornstarch.
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any of various dishes made of flour, milk, eggs, sugar, etc.
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complete nonsense; foolish humbug.
noun
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informal meaningless flattery; nonsense
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a cold pudding of oatmeal, etc
Etymology
Origin of flummery
1615–25; < Welsh llymru, with ending assimilated to -ery
Example Sentences
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A festival with all the frills and extras and flummeries stripped away.
From The Guardian
His career in flummery and flimflam was launched when he left reform school at age 14 to work as a Coney Island pitchman, then joined Dr. W.H.
From Washington Post
“I think Meghan will cope - but she will find some of the flummery difficult to bear,” said Andrew Morton, who has penned a biography of the bride-to-be.
From Reuters
“I think Meghan will cope but she will find some of the flummery difficult to bear.”
From Reuters
Their research is superior–Chris Wallace using slides of actual budget numbers to destroy Trump’s budgetary flummery, Megyn Kelly using tape to demonstrate Trump’s policy reversals.
From Time
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