Synonyms for flummery
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : fluhm-uh-ree |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈflʌm ə ri |
Top 10 synonyms for flummery Other synonyms for the word flummery
- bagatelle
- baloney
- bibelot
- blab
- blandishment
- blarney
- bootlicking
- bosh
- bull
- bunk
- cajolery
- chatter
- chitchat
- clack
- claptrap
- commendation
- conference
- conversation
- conversation piece
- coquetting
- crock
- curiosity
- dallying
- debate
- device
- dialogue
- discussion
- drivel
- embellishment
- encomium
- eulogy
- eyewash
- fawning
- flatter
- flattering
- flightiness
- flippancy
- flirting
- flummery
- folly
- fribble
- frill
- frippery
- frivolity
- frivolousness
- froth
- fudge
- fulsomeness
- fun
- furbelow
- fustian
- gab
- gadget
- gaiety
- gallantry
- game
- giddiness
- gratification
- hogwash
- hokum
- honeyed words
- incense
- ingratiation
- jargon
- jest
- jive
- laud
- lightheartedness
- lightness
- malarkey
- miniature
- minutia
- moonshine
- mush
- nonsense
- notion
- novelty
- objet d'art
- obsequiousness
- palaver
- parley
- plaudits
- play
- plaything
- poppycock
- pretty speech
- puerility
- puffery
- rigmarole
- rot
- servility
- shallowness
- showpiece
- smoke
- snow
- snow job
- soft words
- soft-soap
- sport
- stroke
- superficiality
- sweet talk
- sycophancy
- talk
- thingamajig
- toadyism
- toy
- toying
- trapping
- trash
- tribute
- trifle
- trifles
- trifling
- tripe
- triviality
- truckling
- twaddle
- unctuousness
- volatility
- whatnot
- wheedle
- whimsicality
- whimsy
Définition of flummery
Origin :- 1620s, a type of coagulated food, from Welsh llymru "sour oatmeal jelly boiled with the husks," of uncertain origin. Figurative use, of flattery, empty talk, is from 1740s.
- As in knickknack : noun trinket; decorative piece
- As in balderdash : noun nonsense
- As in palaver : noun empty talk
- As in fiddle-faddle : noun nonsense
- As in flattery : noun false praise, compliments
- As in frivolity : noun silliness, childishness
- There isn't one particle of flummery in Crondall's whole body.
- Extract from : « The Message » by Alec John Dawson
- And I can dish up a trifle of flummery in here and there conveniently, and—let me see.
- Extract from : « In the Roar of the Sea » by Sabine Baring-Gould
- Yes; all that flummery about merchant princes and so forth is nonsense.
- Extract from : « A Widow's Tale and Other Stories » by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
- In my opinion it's the eatables that matter and not flummery decorations.
- Extract from : « Anne Of Green Gables » by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Let me have the full particulars, and don't try on flummery.'
- Extract from : « Caricature and Other Comic Art » by James Parton.
- Flummery has ceased to be a popular preacher these twenty years.
- Extract from : « Here and There in London » by J. Ewing Ritchie
- And a young woman who doesn't go in for poetry, and dreaming, and all that kind of flummery.
- Extract from : « Jimbo » by Algernon Blackwood
- No flummery, that leaves a man tired and hungry when he leaves the table.
- Extract from : « Hildegarde's Harvest » by Laura E. Richards
- He had here no moral support for his just contempt of Popish flummery.
- Extract from : « Mystery at Geneva » by Rose Macaulay
- Their supper always consists of flummery, made of barley-meal.
- Extract from : « Lachesis Lapponica » by Carl von Linn
Antonyms for flummery
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