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flummery (iou)



flummery noun. E17.
[Welsh llymru, perh. rel. to llymrig bare, soft, slippery.]
A dish made with boiled, jellied oat- or wheatmeal. E17.
b. Any of various sweet dishes made with milk, flour, eggs, gelatin, etc. L17.
Flattery, empty compliment; nonsense, humbug. M18.
Thackeray These petitioners..begin with a fine flummery about the..eminent genius of the person whom they are addressing.
b. collect. Trifles, useless trappings or ornaments. L19.
A. Fraser Even the celebration of Christmas was denounced as being a piece of Popish flummery.