flummery
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Others include jugged hare and flummery - an oat-based fermented jelly, associated with farmhouse production and poverty.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
"But he really just wanted to cut through all the flummery and get people to see him for what he was."
From Fox News ● Apr. 18, 2021
His career in flummery and flimflam was launched when he left reform school at age 14 to work as a Coney Island pitchman, then joined Dr. W.H.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2018
Yet there they are, doing the job properly at last, avoiding fanfare and flummery, earning the right to admiration.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 20, 2012
It sounded like a lot of flummery to Drave, but what did he know?
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Dishes included white soup, partridge pie and jelly desserts or flummeries.
From BBC ● May 10, 2013
It would have been filled with fruit, flummeries or blancmanges, biscuits, gateaux, jellies and ice cream.
From BBC ● May 10, 2013
There were plenty of ways to do this; all sorts of accounting flummeries had already been perpetrated, but a final tweak was needed.
From Time Magazine Archive
The flattery, handholding and creative fudgery that are at the heart of diplomacy are the very sort of fancy-pants flummeries that the President abhors.
From Time Magazine Archive
She says I've got to have one, and she insists on sewing at home on all sorts of fool flummeries for some dressmaker so I can.
From Carl and the Cotton Gin by Sara Ware Bassett
