Noun: flummery
| Singular | flummery |
| Plural | flummeries |
Sample Sentences
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1940, Rex Stout, Over My Dead Body
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"Pfui! This is flummery!"
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This is the twentieth century, for what it’s worth. It’s not the age of reason, or even the nineteenth century, it’s the era of flummery, and the day of the devious approach. Reason’s gone into the backrooms where it works to devise means by which people can be induced to emote in the desired direction. [1960, John Wyndham, The Trouble With Lichen, Penguin Books, page 91:]
Nouns inflected like flummery
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Borrowed from Welsh llymru (“a sour jelly derived from boiled oatmeal”), of uncertain origin, perhaps related to llymrig (“slippery”).
2. For phonetic development, compare origin of Floyd.
Verbs referencing "flummery"
German Nouns
Flammeri.