flummery
pronunciation
How to pronounce flummery in British English:
UK [ˈflʌməri]
How to pronounce flummery in American English:
US ['flʌmərɪ]
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- Noun:
- a bland custard or pudding especially of oatmeal
- meaningless ceremonies and flattery
Word Origin
- flummery (n.)
- 1620s, a type of coagulated food, from Welsh llymru "sour oatmeal jelly boiled with the husks," of uncertain origin. Later of a sweet dish in cookery (1747). Figurative use, of flattery, empty talk, is from 1740s.
Example
- 1. All the rest is flummery .
- 2. Woolly flummery will not do .
- 3. As a work in progress , the parliament invents its own flummery .
- 4. Yet behind this diplomatic flummery was the story that is further feeding japan 's many insecurities .
- 5. But her father , who is quite as opposed to such flummery as I , says that can be cured .