flummery
pronunciation
UK [ˈflʌməri]
US ['flʌmərɪ]
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- n.
- 废话
- 恭维话
- 蛋奶甜点心
Word Origin
flummery 恭维话
改写自威尔干语llymru, 一种酸甜的燕麦糊，后用于指一种蛋奶甜点心。由甜点引申词义恭维。
Example
- 1. All the rest is flummery .
- 其它什么都是废话。
- 2. Woolly flummery will not do .
- 回答含糊是不行的。
- 3. As a work in progress , the parliament invents its own flummery .
- 议会正在发展中，它发明了自己打马虎眼的方式。
- 4. Yet behind this diplomatic flummery was the story that is further feeding japan 's many insecurities .
- 然而，这种外交恭维背后的故事，进一步引发了日本的诸多不安情绪。
- 5. But her father , who is quite as opposed to such flummery as I , says that can be cured .
- 不过她的父亲和我一样反对她这种俗套，说这种毛病是可以治好的。