Flummery

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Meaningless or deceptive language; humbug.
  • n. Any of several soft, sweet, bland foods, such as custard.
  • n. A sweet gelatinous pudding made by straining boiled oatmeal or flour.
  • n. A soft dessert of stewed, thickened fruit, often mixed with a grain such as rice.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A custard; any of several bland, gelatinous foodstuffs, usually made from stewed fruit and thickened with oatmeal, cornstarch or flour
  • n. empty or meaningless talk
  • n. deceptive or blustering speech; bullshit
  • interjection. an expression of contemptuous disbelief
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap.
  • n. Something insipid, or not worth having; empty compliment; trash; unsubstantial talk of writing.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A sort of jelly made of flour or meal; pap.
  • n. In modern cookery, a name given to various light preparations of milk and flour with white of eggs, sweetened and flavored, and served with cream as a dessert.
  • n. A refuse product of wheaten starch manufactures.
  • n. Mere nonsense; mere flattery; empty compliment.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a bland custard or pudding especially of oatmeal
  • n. meaningless ceremonies and flattery
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    pudding    hokum    nonsense    nonsensicality    meaninglessness    bunk   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    trash    nonsense    porridge    flattery   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts