flummery
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Mr. Flummery expressed his opinion that it was a decided plant.
From Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people by Dickens, Charles
A public instructor jumped up in the person of Mr. Flummery Flam, the least insinuating and the least plausible personage that ever performed the easy task of gulling a nation.
From The Voyage of Captain Popanilla by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
Flowers, small, to candy ib. ——, in sprigs, to candy 272 Flummery, Dutch ib. ——, hartshorn ib.
From The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady
The little philosopher with whom he had conversed at Lady Spirituelle's, and who, being a friend of Flummery Flam, had now obtained a place under Government, invented the most condemning evidence.
From The Voyage of Captain Popanilla by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
Flummery, flum′ėr-i, n. an acid jelly made from the husks of oats: the Scotch sowens: anything insipid: empty compliment.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
