flummery – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
flummery
n.
any of a number of boiled bland foods (i.e. porridge, custard, pudding); empty compliments, flattery, nonsense
Flummery
Flummery is a starch-based sweet soft dessert
pudding known to have been popular in Britain and Ireland from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. The word has also been used for other semi-set desserts.
flummery
Noun
1. a bland custard or pudding especially of oatmeal
(hypernym) pudding
2. meaningless ceremonies and flattery
(synonym) mummery
(hypernym) nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum
flummery
n.
1. food
ايک ہلکا اور پتلا کھانا, دليا, لپسي, فالودہ
2. nonsense
زٹل, ياوہ گوئي, بے معني باتيں
flummery
Synonyms and related words:
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
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
