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Qué (quién) es flummery - definición

DESSERT PUDDING
Cool Berry Flummery; Cool berry flummery; Flummeries

Flummery         
·noun A light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap.
II. Flummery ·noun Something insipid, or not worth having; empty compliment; trash; unsubstantial talk of writing.
flummery         
n.
1.
Sowens, sowins or sowans, porridge (made of the dust of oatmeal).
2.
Trash, frivolity, chaff, moonshine, trifling, froth, frippery, empty nonsense.
3.
Flattery, adulation, blandishment, blarney, empty compliment.
flummery         
['fl?m(?)ri]
¦ noun (plural flummeries)
1. empty compliments; nonsense.
2. a sweet dish made with beaten eggs and sugar.
Origin
C17: from Welsh llymru; perh. related to llymrig 'soft, slippery'.

Wikipedia

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.

Ejemplos de uso de flummery
1. This is utter rubbish, evidence of how corrupted journalists now are by political flummery.
2. He‘s a quietly determined kind of chap, not much given to flummery or exaggeration.
3. He grasps that, just because monarchy‘s flummery is sometimes ridiculous, that does not mean it is redundant.
4. But what has been achieved, behind the flummery and inflated promises of a new Anglo–French love–in?
5. Once upon a time this son of the manse looked uncomfortable among the golden chalices, the flummery and pomp of the Lord Mayors annual shindig.