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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Look carefully and some guide to the reign to come will be seen behind the flummery and pomp.
From BBC
And it raises the question of whether a brand can succeed simply by presenting the goods, without flummery.
From New York Times
"But he really just wanted to cut through all the flummery and get people to see him for what he was."
From Fox News
In his biography, Andrew Morton wrote that Diana was “deeply disenchanted with the protocol, the flummery and the artifice” of the family, and “the brittle formality” of royal life.
From New York Times
Anything we could do to stop this flummery from clogging our airwaves, inboxes and video streams would probably be worse than the problem itself.
From Fox News
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