'Flummery' definitions:
Definition of 'flummery'
(from WordNet)
noun
A bland custard or pudding especially of oatmeal
noun
Meaningless ceremonies and flattery [syn: mummery, flummery]
Definition of 'Flummery'
From: GCIDE
- Flummery \Flum"mer*y\, n. [W. llumru, or llumruwd, a kind of food made of oatmeal steeped in water until it has turned sour, fr. llumrig harsh, raw, crude, fr. llum sharp, severe.]
- 1. A light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap. [1913 Webster]
- Milk and flummery are very fit for children. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Something insipid, or not worth having; empty compliment; trash; unsubstantial talk of writing. [1913 Webster]
- The flummery of modern criticism. --J. Morley. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'flummery'
From: GCIDE
- Sowens \Sow"ens\ (? or ?), n. pl. [Scottish; cf. AS. se['a]w juice, glue, paste.] A nutritious article of food, much used in Scotland, made from the husk of the oat by a process not unlike that by which common starch is made; -- called flummery in England. [Written also sowans, and sowins.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'flummery'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absurdity,
- amphigory,
- babble,
- babblement,
- balderdash,
- bibble-babble,
- blabber,
- blather,
- bombast,
- claptrap,
- double-talk,
- drivel,
- drool,
- fiddle-faddle,
- fiddledeedee,
- folderol,
- fudge,
- fustian,
- gabble,
- galimatias,
- gammon,
- gibber,
- gibberish,
- gibble-gabble,
- gobbledygook,
- hocus-pocus,
- humbug,
- jabber,
- jargon,
- mumbo jumbo,
- narrishkeit,
- niaiserie,
- nonsense,
- pack of nonsense,
- palaver,
- prate,
- prattle,
- rant,
- rigamarole,
- rigmarole,
- rodomontade,
- rubbish,
- skimble-skamble,
- stuff and nonsense,
- stultiloquence,
- trash,
- trumpery,
- twaddle,
- twattle,
- twiddle-twaddle,
- vaporing,
- waffling