FLUMMERY

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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

2.
n.

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


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