flummery

[ fluhm-uh-ree ]

/ ˈflʌm ə ri /

oatmeal or flour boiled with water until thick.

fruit custard or blancmange usually thickened with cornstarch.

any of various dishes made of flour, milk, eggs, sugar, etc.

complete nonsense; foolish humbug.

Origin of flummery

1615–25; < Welsh llymru, with ending assimilated to -ery

fluke, flukey, fluky, flumadiddle, flume, flummery, flummox, flump, flung, flunisolide, flunitrazepam

Very, very many things he condemned as flummery and sickly waste of time.

The White Peacock |D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
A man must have a thick skin to be able to carry off all the flummery of Highness without any feeling of shame.

Royal Highness |Thomas Mann
Let me have the full particulars, and don't try on flummery.'

Caricature and Other Comic Art |James Parton.
And I can dish up a trifle of flummery in here and there conveniently, and—let me see.

In the Roar of the Sea |Sabine Baring-Gould

There isn't one particle of flummery in Crondall's whole body.

The Message |Alec John Dawson

flummery

/ (ˈflʌmərɪ) /

informal meaningless flattery; nonsense

mainly British a cold pudding of oatmeal, etc

C17: from Welsh llymru