Flummery

Word FLUMMERY
Character 8
Hyphenation flum mer y
Pronunciations /ˈflʌməɹi/

Definitions and meanings of "Flummery"

What do we mean by flummery?

Meaningless or deceptive language; humbug. noun

Any of several soft, sweet, bland foods, such as custard. noun

A sweet gelatinous pudding made by straining boiled oatmeal or flour. noun

A soft dessert of stewed, thickened fruit, often mixed with a grain such as rice. noun

Mere nonsense; mere flattery; empty compliment. noun

A sort of jelly made of flour or meal; pap. noun

In modern cookery, a name given to various light preparations of milk and flour with white of eggs, sweetened and flavored, and served with cream as a dessert. noun

A refuse product of wheaten starch manufactures. noun

A light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap. noun

Something insipid, or not worth having; empty compliment; trash; unsubstantial talk of writing. noun

A custard; any of several bland, gelatinous foodstuffs, usually made from stewed fruit and thickened with oatmeal, cornstarch or flour noun

Empty or meaningless talk noun

Deceptive or blustering speech; bullshit noun

An expression of contemptuous disbelief interjection

A bland custard or pudding especially of oatmeal noun

Meaningless ceremonies and flattery noun

A custard; any of several bland, gelatinous foodstuffs, usually made from stewed fruit and thickened with oatmeal, cornstarch or flour.

Empty or meaningless talk, especially when used to flatter.

Pretentious trappings, useless ornaments used to impress.

Deceptive or blustering speech.

Bogus mumbo jumbo nonsense Urban Dictionary

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The word "flummery" in example sentences

Dutch flummery is made by boiling two ounces of isinglass in three half-pints of water very gently for half an hour. ❋ Jane (1845)

Rice flummery, which is a very nice side dish, is made by mixing a quarter of a pound of ground rice with a little cold milk, and then adding a pint of new milk which has been boiled, with a stick of cinnamon and a bit of lemon-peel; flavour it with sugar and a teaspoonful of peach-water. ❋ Jane (1845)

Sylvia's position and outlook from this level then, I thrust my way through what I impatiently dismissed as the "flummery"; by which I meant the poetry, the picturesqueness, the sacrosanct glamour surrounding his ❋ Unknown (1912)

Forsytes singularly free of "flummery," as Nicholas had been wont to call it when he had the gout. ❋ John Galsworthy (1900)

The time had come when the Forsytes might resign their natural resentment against a "flummery" not theirs by birth, and accept it as the still more natural due of their possessive instincts. ❋ John Galsworthy (1900)

Now have I not given you a fine feast of homage, -- "flummery" Mr. Hawthorne calls it? ❋ Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (1888)

"flummery" not theirs by birth, and accept it as the still more natural due of their possessive instincts. ❋ John Galsworthy (1900)

a little better than any other because it was their world, had kept the old Forsytes singularly free of "flummery," as Nicholas had been wont to call it when he had the gout. ❋ John Galsworthy (1900)

Meanwhile, he goes out with panache and his usual ability to see through flummery. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sullen countermodernity images the academic as the snide sophistic Last Man, pathetically, defensively retreated into what – all good sense knows – is pseudo-intellectual flummery. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

However, it is also true that David Cameron's piece had the opposite affect on me to that that he intended... patronising flummery of the highest order.... ❋ Unknown (2011)

To be an objective mimeticist does require, I think, that one does not automatically write off the marvelous in fiction as tosh and flummery. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

I'm in Indianapolis today and Obama has an excellent ad on the air about the Clinton-McCain Gas Tax Holiday flummery. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This is all art-school flummery from hacks suspended between their egotism and their lack of talent. ❋ Frankwu (2008)

The flummery about executing master warrants turns out to be just that. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Modernism as Pound preached it and T. S. Eliot practiced it—in The Waste Land, “a hodge-podge of flummery and borrowed paste”—was, in short, probably as ruinous for the art of verse as fascism was for Europe. ❋ Amy Gerstler (2010)

Because there is less flummery and party point-scoring than in the main chamber, its debates are often more informative. ❋ Unknown (2008)

His [words] were [mere] flummery. ❋ Scott Smiley (2007)

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