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noun

Flummery n.

A light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap. "Milk and flummery are very fit for children."

Something insipid, or not worth having; empty compliment; trash; unsubstantial talk of writing. "The flummery of modern criticism."

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Etymology of 'Flummery'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Flummery" Quotes from Famous Books

... With more barbaric mummery, flummery and vulgar waste of wealth than characterized even the late Marlborough- Vanderbilt wedding, Nicholas Two-Eyes was crowned Emperor of the rag-tag and bob-tail of creation, officially known as "all the Russias." Nick has a nice easy job at a salary considerably in excess of ye average country ...

— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... occurred to me before. I had never thought, never dreamt of it. But now that the idea was presented to me, I by no means disliked it. It was not, however, the flummery of my new acquaintance, who, I need hardly say, was neither more nor less than a sergeant in coloured clothes, assumed, I suppose, for the purpose of taking young fellows like myself unawares,—I say it was not his balderdash, which, young and raw ...

— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, XXII • various

... certain of a comfortable future. There was no too modern uneasiness about it, no trifling, gim-crack furniture constructed to catch the eye and the angles of any one venturing to seek repose upon it, no unmeaning rubbish of ornaments or hectic flummery of second-rate pictures. Above the high oaken mantel-piece was a little pure bust in marble of the Prophet when a small boy. To right and left were pretty miniatures in golden frames of the Prophet's delightfully numerous grandmothers. Here might be seen Mrs. Prothero, the great ship-builder's ...

— The Prophet of Berkeley Square • Robert Hichens

... frills and flummery part of it that frightens me," he said. "You wouldn't think that sensitiveness was my weak point. But it is. I've stood up to a Birmingham mob that was waiting to lynch me and enjoyed the experience; but ...

— All Roads Lead to Calvary • Jerome K. Jerome

Words linked to "Flummery" : hokum, nonsensicality, nonsense, bunk