Flummery: Definition and part of speech

Flummery

  1. n. Something insipid, or not worth having; empty compliment; trash; unsubstantial talk of writing.
  2. n. A light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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