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flummery|ˈflʌmərɪ|
Also 7 flommeri, flumery, thlummery, 7–8 flamery.
[a. Welsh llymru, of unknown etymology; the fl- and Herbert's thl- are attempts to render the sound of Welsh ll-; cf. fluellin.]
1. a. ‘A kind of food made by coagulation of wheatflour or oatmeal’ (J.). Cf. sowens.
1623Markham Eng. Housew. vi. 222 From this small Oat-meale, by oft steeping it in water and clensing it, and then boyling it to a thicke and stiffe Ielly, is made that excellent dish of meat which is so esteemed in the West parts of this Kingdome, which they call Wash-brew, and in Chesheire and Lankasheire they call it Flamerie or Flumerie. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 150 The poore eat Rice sometimes, but most commonly Roots..and Fraize like to our Thlummery. 1760Goldsm. Cit. W. lviii, A farmer..who used to sup upon wild ducks and flummery. 1821Blackw. Mag. VIII. 541 Let Leigh Hunt sing of cabbages and flummery. 1839–73Bywater Sheffield Dial. (1877) 257 Whoile he's had his throit scalded we heitin flummera.
b. Mod. Cookery. A name given to various sweet dishes made with milk, flour, eggs, etc.
1747H. Glasse Cookery xvi. 146 To make Hartshorn Flummery. Ibid. 147 To make French Flummery. 1769Mrs. Raffald Eng. Housekpr. (1778) 187 When you make a hen's or bird's nest, let part of your jelly be set in your bowl before you put on your flummery. 1877Cassell's Dict. Cookery, Flummery—Boil two ounces of gelatine [etc.].
c. (See quot.)
1876F. C. Calvert Dyeing & Calico Print. vi. 200 Flummery (the refuse product from wheaten starch manufactures).
2. a. fig. Mere flattery or empty compliment; nonsense, humbug, empty trifling.
1749Lady Luxborough Let. to Shenstone 29 Nov. (1775) 143 This word flummery, you must know, Sir, means at London, flattery, and compliment. 1828Scott Jrnl. 19 Feb., The proofs..are arrived..but I have had no time, saving to blot out some flummery. 1860Thackeray Round. Papers, Thorns in Cush. (1876) 50 These petitioners..begin with a fine flummery about the..eminent genius of the person whom they are addressing. 1891T. Hardy Tess II. xxvi. 66 Her father..is quite..opposed to such flummery.
attrib.1802E. Parsons Myst. Visit IV. 39, I know you too well to be deceived by your fine flummery tales. 1858Masson Milton (1874) I. 25 Flummery pictures representing the blind poet in a rapt attitude.
b. dial. and U.S. collect. Trifles, useless trappings or ornaments.
1879Dewsbre back at Mooin Olmenac 5 (E.D.D.), For fear t'sun sud fade yor carpets and yor bits o' flummery. 1883‘Mark Twain’ Life on Mississippi 406 The bridal chamber whose pretentious flummery was overawing. |