trumperyn.adj.

/ˈtrʌmpəri/

Forms: Middle English–1500s trompery(e, (1500s tromperey, troumperie, trumprie), 1500s–1600s tromperie, trumperie, 1500s– trumpery.

Etymology: < French tromperie (14th cent. in Godefroy Compl.), < tromper trump v.²: see -ery suffix.

A. n.

†1. Deceit, fraud, imposture, trickery. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [noun]

falsec1000

fraudc1330

barrat1340

faitery1377

defraudc1450

trumpery1481

covin1487

defraudationc1503

knavery1528

conveyance1531

imposture1537

defrauding1548

cozenage1583

impostry1585

catch-dolt1592

gullery1598

coggery1602

gullage1607

charlatism1611

impostury1615

quacksalvery1617

mountebankery1618

imposition1632

imposturisma1634

blaflum1637

charlatanry1638

defraudment1645

mountebankism1649

impostorya1652

impostorism1652

imposturage1654

impostery1656

mountebank1657

imposing1659

quackery1675

quackism1722

empiricism1774

cross1802

charlatanism1804

practitionery1818

cozenry1829

humbuggery1831

trick1833

thimble-shift1834

thimble-shifting1834

thimbleriggery1841

humbuggism1842

quackhood1843

quacksalverism1864

razzle-dazzle1928

spivery1948

shuck1958

shucking and jiving1969

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 212 Sa yat thare be na trompery.

a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 141 They concordit alltogither in trumperie and fallsit.

1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. III iii. 78 Their Ethics were but false or..imperfect ideas of Vertues..their politics were but carnal and so false reasons of State..and therefore stiled in the Scripture tromperie, deceit, and lies.

1847 B. Disraeli Tancred I. ii. iv. 142 Irish Papists denouncing the whole movement as fraud and trumpery.

plural.1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) clxiii. 241 His fayr wordes full of tromperyes and deceytes.1598 R. Dallington View of Fraunce sig. H j^v He left none of his trumperies and double dealings vnreuealed.1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. xii. 362 He runnes into corners, exercising minor trumperies, and acting his deceits in Witches, Magicians, Diviners. 1687 R. L'Estrange Brief Hist. Times I. 140 How was the Justice of the Nation, Abus'd, and Impos'd upon by the Trumperies of Confederacy.

2. ‘Something of less value than it seems’; hence, ‘something of no value; trifles’ (Johnson); worthless stuff, trash, rubbish. (Usually collective singular; also, now rarely, plural.)

a. Applied to material objects (see also A. 2c – A. 2e).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > worthless > collectively

riff-raff1526

trumpery1531

triff-traff1547

trashery1557

dudgeon1593

lee1593

sweeping1641

lumber1649

worthless1758

trashtrie1786

tagraggery1837

flotsam1861

tat1951

1531 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 324 A tub, a hogeshed w^t other trumperie, viij d.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 598 I haue sold all my Tromperie: not a counterfeit Stone, not a Ribbon, Glasse, Pomander, Browch..to keepe my Pack from fasting.

1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France II. 353 A heap of trumpery fit to furnish out the shop of a Westminster pawnbroker.

1807 Salmagundi 20 Mar. 111 An abundance of trumpery and rubbish, with which the house is incumbered,..every room, and closet, and corner, is crammed with three legged chairs, clocks without hands, swords without scabbards [etc.].

plural.a1618 W. Raleigh Disc. Invention Shipping 41 in Judicious & Select Ess. (1650) Silver, Cut works, Cambricks, and a world of other trumperyes.1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xliv. 393 Drawers and cupboards crammed with the dirty relics and congregated trumperies of a couple of generations of Lady Crawleys.

b. Applied to abstract things, as beliefs, practices, discourse, writing, etc.: Nonsense, ‘rubbish’.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun]

magged talea1387

moonshine1468

trumperyc1485

foolishness1531

trash1542

baggage1545

flim-flam1570

gear1570

rubbisha1576

fiddle-faddle1577

stuff1579

fible-fable1581

balductum1593

pill1608

nonsense1612

skimble-skamble1619

porridge1642

mataeology1656

fiddle-come-faddle1663

apple sauce1672

balderdash1674

flummery1749

slang1762

all my eye1763

diddle-daddle1778

(all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781

twaddle1782

blancmange1790

fudge1791

twiddle-twaddle1798

bothering1803

fee-faw-fum1811

slip-slop1811

nash-gab1816

flitter-tripe1822

effutiation1823

bladderdash1826

ráiméis1828

fiddlededee1843

pickles1846

rot1846

kelter1847

bosh1850

flummadiddle1850

poppycock1852

Barnum1856

fribble-frabble1859

kibosh1860

skittle1864

cod1866

Collyweston1867

punk1869

slush1869

stupidness1873

bilge-water1878

flapdoodle1878

tommyrot1880

ruck1882

piffle1884

flamdoodle1888

razzmatazz1888

balls1889

pop1890

narrischkeit1892

tosh1892

footle1894

tripe1895

crap1898

bunk1900

junk1906

quatsch1907

bilge1908

B.S.1912

bellywash1913

jazz1913

wash1913

bullshit?1915

kid-stakes1916

hokum1917

bollock1919

bullsh1919

bushwa1920

noise1920

bish-bosh1922

malarkey1923

posh1923

hooey1924

shit1924

heifer dust1927

madam1927

baloney1928

horse feathers1928

phonus-bolonus1929

rhubarb1929

spinach1929

toffeea1930

tomtit1930

hockey1931

phoney baloney1933

moody1934

cockalorum1936

cock1937

mess1937

waffle1937

berley1941

bull dust1943

crud1943

globaloney1943

hubba-hubba1944

pish1944

phooey1946

asswipe1947

chickenshit1947

slag1948

batshit1950

goop1950

slop1952

cack1954

doo-doo1954

cobbler1955

horse shit1955

nyamps1955

pony1956

horse manure1957

waffling1958

bird shit1959

codswallop1959

how's your father1959

dog shit1963

cods1965

shmegegge1968

pucky1970

taradiddle1970

mouthwash1971

wank1974

gobshite1977

mince1985

toss1990

arse1993

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 269 Ffor gif fulis..be sa daft yat thai wage bataill for lytill evyn as to say..yat he dauncis or syngis better na he dois, or for syk maner of tromperyis.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. lx. 401 The blacke spottes growing on the backside of the leaues [of ‘male fern’: cf. fern-seed n.]..some do gather thinking to worke wonders, but to say the trueth, it is nothing els but trumperie and superstition.

1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vi. 96 With all their Trumpery of Charms.

1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil i. ii. 25 All the metaphysical trumpery of the Schools.

1846 D. Jerrold Mrs. Caudle viii. 25 I'd put an end to free-masonry and all such trumpery.

c. Applied contemptuously to religious practices, ceremonies, ornaments, etc. regarded as idle or superstitious. (Cf. trinket n.¹ 3) Now rare or merged in general sense.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > superstitious > [noun]

mumming1528

trumpery1542

mummery1549

1542 H. Brinkelow Lamentacion sig. Ciii Pardons and other of their trompery hath bene bought and sold.

1566 in E. Peacock Eng. Church Furnit. (1866) 95 Banner clothes, crosse clothes, with the rest of the trash as vestments albes and such lik tromperie—wear defacid..by the said churchwardens.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 475 Embryo's and Idiots, Eremits and Friers White, Black and Grey, with all thir trumperie .

1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters iii. 12 This City is famed for..reliques of saints, and such like holy trumpery.

1824 R. Southey Bk. of Church (1841) 267 St. Francis, St. Dominic, and their fellows, must dislodge with all their trumpery.

plural.1548 tr. M. Luther Chiefe Articles Christen Faythe Pref. sig. Av Our juglynge tromperies.1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes ix. vii. § i. 1487 Wearied with the trumperies of the Religion of Mahumet.1731 J. Pitts True & Faithful Acct. Mahometans (ed. 3) vi. 55 They blame the Papists for having so many Trumperies in their Churches.

d. Showy but unsubstantial apparel; worthless finery.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > cheap or gaudy

bawdrya1529

bravery1563

fangle1583

flaunt1590

gaudery1597

trumperya1616

ginger-work1631

frippery1637

finery1647

tawdrya1680

tawdrum1680

tinsey1685

flappet1728

gingerbread work1748

tinsel1782

fallalery1824

tinselry1830

figgery1841

flaring1881

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 186 The trumpery in my house, goe bring it hither For stale to catch these theeues.

1804 M. Edgeworth Out of Debt iv, in Pop. Tales I. 376 ‘You have brought me to the gallows, and all for this trumpery!’ cried he, snatching her gaudy hat from her head.

1851 C. Brontë Let. in E. C. Gaskell Life C. Brontë (1857) II. ix. 209 It would be no shame for a person of my means to wear a cheaper thing..if you..call it ‘trumpery’ so much the worse.

e. Horticulture. Weeds or refuse, such as hinder the growth of valuable plants. Obsolete exc. dialect.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [noun] > clearing land > vegetable refuse

beat-borough1602

beat1620

trumpery1669

wrack1715

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 214 Broom, Furze, Heath, and other suchlike trumpery, that delight only in barren Lands.

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) II. 387 Finish your last Weeding, and cleanse your Garden of Trumpery.

1758 R. Brown Compl. Farmer (1760) ii. 30 It occasions its running to May-weed, and other trumpery.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Trumpery, rubbish of any kind; weeds or any undesirable growth.

f. Applied to a person, esp. a woman: cf. trash n.¹ 4. ? Obsolete exc. dialect.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > worthlessness > worthless person > [noun]

ribalda1250

brethelingc1275

filec1300

waynouna1350

waster1352

lorel1362

losel1362

land-leaper1377

javelc1400

leftc1400

lorerc1400

shackerellc1420

brethel1440

never-thrift1440

ne'er-thrifta1450

never-thrivinga1450

nebulona1475

breelc1485

naughty pack?1534

brathel1542

unsel155.

pelf1551

wandrel?1567

land-loper1570

scald1575

baggage1594

arrant1605

good-for-nothing1611

hilding1611

vauneant1621

idle-pack1624

thimble-maker1654

never-do-well1664

ne'er-be-good1675

shack1682

vagabond1686

shag-bag1699

houndsfoot1710

blackguard1732

ne'er-do-well1737

trumpery1738

rap1742

good-for-naught1773

rip1781

mauvais sujet1793

scamp1808

waffie1808

loose fish1809

ne'er-do-good1814

hard bargain1818

vaurien1829

sculpin1834

shicer1846

wastrel1847

scallywag1848

shack-bag1855

beat1865

rodney1877

git1939

no-hoper1944

piss artist1962

society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > worthlessness > good-for-nothing person

brethelingc1275

filec1300

dogc1330

ribald1340

waynouna1350

waster1352

lorel1362

losel1362

land-leaper1377

triflera1382

brothelc1390

javelc1400

leftc1400

lorerc1400

shackerellc1420

brethel1440

never-thrift1440

vagrant1444

ne'er-thrifta1450

never-thrivinga1450

nebulona1475

breelc1485

naughty pack?1534

brathel1542

carrion1547

slim1548

unsel155.

pelf1551

shifterc1562

rag1566

wandrel?1567

land-loper1570

nothing-worth1580

baggage1594

roly-poly1602

bash-rag1603

arrant1605

ragabash?1609

flabergullion1611

hilding1611

hard bargain1612

slubberdegullion1612

vauneant1621

knick-knacker1622

idle-pack1624

slabberdegullion1653

thimble-maker1654

whiffler1659

never-do-well1664

good-for-nought1671

ne'er-be-good1675

shack1682

vagabond1686

shabaroon1699

shag-bag1699

houndsfoot1710

ne'er-do-well1737

trumpery1738

rap1742

hallion1789

scamp1808

waffie1808

ne'er-do-good1814

vaurien1829

sculpin1834

shicer1846

good-for-nothing1847

wastrel1847

scallywag1848

shack-bag1855

beat1865

toe-rag1875

rodney1877

toe-ragger1896

low-lifer1902

punk1904

lowlife1909

ringtail1916

git1939

no-hoper1944

schlub1950

piss artist1962

dead leg1964

1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 195 For Want of Company, welcome Trumpery.

1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. ii. 44 Out, I say..tramp, thou infamous strumpet... What! you trumpery, to come and take up an honest house, without cross or coin to bless yourself with.

1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. xviii. 310 Get out wid ye, ye trumpery—I won't have ye round!

B. adj.

Of little or no value; trifling, paltry, insignificant; worthless, rubbishy, trashy.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [adjective]

tooma1250

beggarly1526

trumpery1576

balductum1577

skimble-skamble1598

nonsense1621

warbling1621

flim-flam1631

nonsensical1645

unsensical1692

fiddlecome1697

waffling1698

mataeological1716

flummery1749

water-gruelish1788

slip-sloppish1797

twaddling1804

twaddle1830

twaddly1841

fee-faw-fumish1846

poppycock1852

boshy1860

twaddlesome1865

moonshiny1880

cockalorum1881

tommyrotic1894

crappy1928

ballsy1942

farkakte1960

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > insubstantial > showy or fanciful but insubstantial

frivol1492

fustian1523

triflinga1538

tirlery1546

trumpery1576

mockado1577

skipjack1597

flashy1598

trifle1607

fripperya1625

bagatelle1637

fingle-fangled1651

tawdry1696

sauntering1726

gimcrack1751

folderol1820

tin1886

shicec1890

cotton candy1951

candyfloss1957

1576 A. Fleming tr. J. Caius Of Eng. Dogges 16 A Hare..was seene..playing with his former feete vppon a tabbaret.... This is no trumpery tale, nor trifling toye.

1748 H. Walpole Lett. (1845) II. 229 Mr. Ashurst..has built a trumpery new house.

1781 H. Walpole Let. to W. Mason 14 Apr. Dr. Johnson's ‘Life of Pope’..is a most trumpery performance.

1810 W. Scott Let. 23 Nov. (1932) II. 401 I hope you will set some value upon this little trumpery brooch because it is..a Scotch harp and set with Iona stones.

1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. vii. 226 The accents of a trumpery rhetorician.

1869 A. Trollope He knew he was Right I. xvi. 127 It seems a trumpery quarrel,—as to who should beg each other's pardon first.

Derivatives

ˈtrumperiness n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > paltriness, meanness, or contempt

miserableness1633

meannessa1656

narrowness1661

sorriness1668

paltriness1727

threadbareness1771

wretchedness1810

trumperiness1868

picayunishness1870

threadbarity1892

1868 A. K. H. Boyd Lessons Middle Age 271 How these things impress the lover of Gothic who dwells in a country of churches of inexpressible trumperiness and shabbiness!

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	trumpery
释义	trumperyn.adj. /ˈtrʌmpəri/ Forms: Middle English–1500s trompery(e, (1500s tromperey, troumperie, trumprie), 1500s–1600s tromperie, trumperie, 1500s– trumpery. Etymology: < French tromperie (14th cent. in Godefroy Compl.), < tromper trump v.²: see -ery suffix. A. n. †1. Deceit, fraud, imposture, trickery. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [noun] falsec1000 fraudc1330 barrat1340 faitery1377 defraudc1450 trumpery1481 covin1487 defraudationc1503 knavery1528 conveyance1531 imposture1537 defrauding1548 cozenage1583 impostry1585 catch-dolt1592 gullery1598 coggery1602 gullage1607 charlatism1611 impostury1615 quacksalvery1617 mountebankery1618 imposition1632 imposturisma1634 blaflum1637 charlatanry1638 defraudment1645 mountebankism1649 impostorya1652 impostorism1652 imposturage1654 impostery1656 mountebank1657 imposing1659 quackery1675 quackism1722 empiricism1774 cross1802 charlatanism1804 practitionery1818 cozenry1829 humbuggery1831 trick1833 thimble-shift1834 thimble-shifting1834 thimbleriggery1841 humbuggism1842 quackhood1843 quacksalverism1864 razzle-dazzle1928 spivery1948 shuck1958 shucking and jiving1969 c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 212 Sa yat thare be na trompery. a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 141 They concordit alltogither in trumperie and fallsit. 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. III iii. 78 Their Ethics were but false or..imperfect ideas of Vertues..their politics were but carnal and so false reasons of State..and therefore stiled in the Scripture tromperie, deceit, and lies. 1847 B. Disraeli Tancred I. ii. iv. 142 Irish Papists denouncing the whole movement as fraud and trumpery. plural.1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) clxiii. 241 His fayr wordes full of tromperyes and deceytes.1598 R. Dallington View of Fraunce sig. H j^v He left none of his trumperies and double dealings vnreuealed.1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. xii. 362 He runnes into corners, exercising minor trumperies, and acting his deceits in Witches, Magicians, Diviners. View more context for this quotation1687 R. L'Estrange Brief Hist. Times I. 140 How was the Justice of the Nation, Abus'd, and Impos'd upon by the Trumperies of Confederacy. 2. ‘Something of less value than it seems’; hence, ‘something of no value; trifles’ (Johnson); worthless stuff, trash, rubbish. (Usually collective singular; also, now rarely, plural.) a. Applied to material objects (see also A. 2c – A. 2e). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > worthless > collectively riff-raff1526 trumpery1531 triff-traff1547 trashery1557 dudgeon1593 lee1593 sweeping1641 lumber1649 worthless1758 trashtrie1786 tagraggery1837 flotsam1861 tat1951 1531 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 324 A tub, a hogeshed w^t other trumperie, viij d. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 598 I haue sold all my Tromperie: not a counterfeit Stone, not a Ribbon, Glasse, Pomander, Browch..to keepe my Pack from fasting. View more context for this quotation 1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France II. 353 A heap of trumpery fit to furnish out the shop of a Westminster pawnbroker. 1807 Salmagundi 20 Mar. 111 An abundance of trumpery and rubbish, with which the house is incumbered,..every room, and closet, and corner, is crammed with three legged chairs, clocks without hands, swords without scabbards [etc.]. plural.a1618 W. Raleigh Disc. Invention Shipping 41 in Judicious & Select Ess. (1650) Silver, Cut works, Cambricks, and a world of other trumperyes.1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xliv. 393 Drawers and cupboards crammed with the dirty relics and congregated trumperies of a couple of generations of Lady Crawleys. b. Applied to abstract things, as beliefs, practices, discourse, writing, etc.: Nonsense, ‘rubbish’. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] magged talea1387 moonshine1468 trumperyc1485 foolishness1531 trash1542 baggage1545 flim-flam1570 gear1570 rubbisha1576 fiddle-faddle1577 stuff1579 fible-fable1581 balductum1593 pill1608 nonsense1612 skimble-skamble1619 porridge1642 mataeology1656 fiddle-come-faddle1663 apple sauce1672 balderdash1674 flummery1749 slang1762 all my eye1763 diddle-daddle1778 (all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781 twaddle1782 blancmange1790 fudge1791 twiddle-twaddle1798 bothering1803 fee-faw-fum1811 slip-slop1811 nash-gab1816 flitter-tripe1822 effutiation1823 bladderdash1826 ráiméis1828 fiddlededee1843 pickles1846 rot1846 kelter1847 bosh1850 flummadiddle1850 poppycock1852 Barnum1856 fribble-frabble1859 kibosh1860 skittle1864 cod1866 Collyweston1867 punk1869 slush1869 stupidness1873 bilge-water1878 flapdoodle1878 tommyrot1880 ruck1882 piffle1884 flamdoodle1888 razzmatazz1888 balls1889 pop1890 narrischkeit1892 tosh1892 footle1894 tripe1895 crap1898 bunk1900 junk1906 quatsch1907 bilge1908 B.S.1912 bellywash1913 jazz1913 wash1913 bullshit?1915 kid-stakes1916 hokum1917 bollock1919 bullsh1919 bushwa1920 noise1920 bish-bosh1922 malarkey1923 posh1923 hooey1924 shit1924 heifer dust1927 madam1927 baloney1928 horse feathers1928 phonus-bolonus1929 rhubarb1929 spinach1929 toffeea1930 tomtit1930 hockey1931 phoney baloney1933 moody1934 cockalorum1936 cock1937 mess1937 waffle1937 berley1941 bull dust1943 crud1943 globaloney1943 hubba-hubba1944 pish1944 phooey1946 asswipe1947 chickenshit1947 slag1948 batshit1950 goop1950 slop1952 cack1954 doo-doo1954 cobbler1955 horse shit1955 nyamps1955 pony1956 horse manure1957 waffling1958 bird shit1959 codswallop1959 how's your father1959 dog shit1963 cods1965 shmegegge1968 pucky1970 taradiddle1970 mouthwash1971 wank1974 gobshite1977 mince1985 toss1990 arse1993 c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 269 Ffor gif fulis..be sa daft yat thai wage bataill for lytill evyn as to say..yat he dauncis or syngis better na he dois, or for syk maner of tromperyis. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. lx. 401 The blacke spottes growing on the backside of the leaues [of ‘male fern’: cf. fern-seed n.]..some do gather thinking to worke wonders, but to say the trueth, it is nothing els but trumperie and superstition. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vi. 96 With all their Trumpery of Charms. 1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil i. ii. 25 All the metaphysical trumpery of the Schools. 1846 D. Jerrold Mrs. Caudle viii. 25 I'd put an end to free-masonry and all such trumpery. c. Applied contemptuously to religious practices, ceremonies, ornaments, etc. regarded as idle or superstitious. (Cf. trinket n.¹ 3) Now rare or merged in general sense. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > superstitious > [noun] mumming1528 trumpery1542 mummery1549 1542 H. Brinkelow Lamentacion sig. Ciii Pardons and other of their trompery hath bene bought and sold. 1566 in E. Peacock Eng. Church Furnit. (1866) 95 Banner clothes, crosse clothes, with the rest of the trash as vestments albes and such lik tromperie—wear defacid..by the said churchwardens. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 475 Embryo's and Idiots, Eremits and Friers White, Black and Grey, with all thir trumperie . View more context for this quotation 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters iii. 12 This City is famed for..reliques of saints, and such like holy trumpery. 1824 R. Southey Bk. of Church (1841) 267 St. Francis, St. Dominic, and their fellows, must dislodge with all their trumpery. plural.1548 tr. M. Luther Chiefe Articles Christen Faythe Pref. sig. Av Our juglynge tromperies.1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes ix. vii. § i. 1487 Wearied with the trumperies of the Religion of Mahumet.1731 J. Pitts True & Faithful Acct. Mahometans (ed. 3) vi. 55 They blame the Papists for having so many Trumperies in their Churches. d. Showy but unsubstantial apparel; worthless finery. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > cheap or gaudy bawdrya1529 bravery1563 fangle1583 flaunt1590 gaudery1597 trumperya1616 ginger-work1631 frippery1637 finery1647 tawdrya1680 tawdrum1680 tinsey1685 flappet1728 gingerbread work1748 tinsel1782 fallalery1824 tinselry1830 figgery1841 flaring1881 a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 186 The trumpery in my house, goe bring it hither For stale to catch these theeues. View more context for this quotation 1804 M. Edgeworth Out of Debt iv, in Pop. Tales I. 376 ‘You have brought me to the gallows, and all for this trumpery!’ cried he, snatching her gaudy hat from her head. 1851 C. Brontë Let. in E. C. Gaskell Life C. Brontë (1857) II. ix. 209 It would be no shame for a person of my means to wear a cheaper thing..if you..call it ‘trumpery’ so much the worse. e. Horticulture. Weeds or refuse, such as hinder the growth of valuable plants. Obsolete exc. dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [noun] > clearing land > vegetable refuse beat-borough1602 beat1620 trumpery1669 wrack1715 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 214 Broom, Furze, Heath, and other suchlike trumpery, that delight only in barren Lands. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) II. 387 Finish your last Weeding, and cleanse your Garden of Trumpery. 1758 R. Brown Compl. Farmer (1760) ii. 30 It occasions its running to May-weed, and other trumpery. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Trumpery, rubbish of any kind; weeds or any undesirable growth. f. Applied to a person, esp. a woman: cf. trash n.¹ 4. ? Obsolete exc. dialect. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > worthlessness > worthless person > [noun] ribalda1250 brethelingc1275 filec1300 waynouna1350 waster1352 lorel1362 losel1362 land-leaper1377 javelc1400 leftc1400 lorerc1400 shackerellc1420 brethel1440 never-thrift1440 ne'er-thrifta1450 never-thrivinga1450 nebulona1475 breelc1485 naughty pack?1534 brathel1542 unsel155. pelf1551 wandrel?1567 land-loper1570 scald1575 baggage1594 arrant1605 good-for-nothing1611 hilding1611 vauneant1621 idle-pack1624 thimble-maker1654 never-do-well1664 ne'er-be-good1675 shack1682 vagabond1686 shag-bag1699 houndsfoot1710 blackguard1732 ne'er-do-well1737 trumpery1738 rap1742 good-for-naught1773 rip1781 mauvais sujet1793 scamp1808 waffie1808 loose fish1809 ne'er-do-good1814 hard bargain1818 vaurien1829 sculpin1834 shicer1846 wastrel1847 scallywag1848 shack-bag1855 beat1865 rodney1877 git1939 no-hoper1944 piss artist1962 society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > worthlessness > good-for-nothing person brethelingc1275 filec1300 dogc1330 ribald1340 waynouna1350 waster1352 lorel1362 losel1362 land-leaper1377 triflera1382 brothelc1390 javelc1400 leftc1400 lorerc1400 shackerellc1420 brethel1440 never-thrift1440 vagrant1444 ne'er-thrifta1450 never-thrivinga1450 nebulona1475 breelc1485 naughty pack?1534 brathel1542 carrion1547 slim1548 unsel155. pelf1551 shifterc1562 rag1566 wandrel?1567 land-loper1570 nothing-worth1580 baggage1594 roly-poly1602 bash-rag1603 arrant1605 ragabash?1609 flabergullion1611 hilding1611 hard bargain1612 slubberdegullion1612 vauneant1621 knick-knacker1622 idle-pack1624 slabberdegullion1653 thimble-maker1654 whiffler1659 never-do-well1664 good-for-nought1671 ne'er-be-good1675 shack1682 vagabond1686 shabaroon1699 shag-bag1699 houndsfoot1710 ne'er-do-well1737 trumpery1738 rap1742 hallion1789 scamp1808 waffie1808 ne'er-do-good1814 vaurien1829 sculpin1834 shicer1846 good-for-nothing1847 wastrel1847 scallywag1848 shack-bag1855 beat1865 toe-rag1875 rodney1877 toe-ragger1896 low-lifer1902 punk1904 lowlife1909 ringtail1916 git1939 no-hoper1944 schlub1950 piss artist1962 dead leg1964 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 195 For Want of Company, welcome Trumpery. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. ii. 44 Out, I say..tramp, thou infamous strumpet... What! you trumpery, to come and take up an honest house, without cross or coin to bless yourself with. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. xviii. 310 Get out wid ye, ye trumpery—I won't have ye round! B. adj. Of little or no value; trifling, paltry, insignificant; worthless, rubbishy, trashy. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [adjective] tooma1250 beggarly1526 trumpery1576 balductum1577 skimble-skamble1598 nonsense1621 warbling1621 flim-flam1631 nonsensical1645 unsensical1692 fiddlecome1697 waffling1698 mataeological1716 flummery1749 water-gruelish1788 slip-sloppish1797 twaddling1804 twaddle1830 twaddly1841 fee-faw-fumish1846 poppycock1852 boshy1860 twaddlesome1865 moonshiny1880 cockalorum1881 tommyrotic1894 crappy1928 ballsy1942 farkakte1960 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > insubstantial > showy or fanciful but insubstantial frivol1492 fustian1523 triflinga1538 tirlery1546 trumpery1576 mockado1577 skipjack1597 flashy1598 trifle1607 fripperya1625 bagatelle1637 fingle-fangled1651 tawdry1696 sauntering1726 gimcrack1751 folderol1820 tin1886 shicec1890 cotton candy1951 candyfloss1957 1576 A. Fleming tr. J. Caius Of Eng. Dogges 16 A Hare..was seene..playing with his former feete vppon a tabbaret.... This is no trumpery tale, nor trifling toye. 1748 H. Walpole Lett. (1845) II. 229 Mr. Ashurst..has built a trumpery new house. 1781 H. Walpole Let. to W. Mason 14 Apr. Dr. Johnson's ‘Life of Pope’..is a most trumpery performance. 1810 W. Scott Let. 23 Nov. (1932) II. 401 I hope you will set some value upon this little trumpery brooch because it is..a Scotch harp and set with Iona stones. 1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. vii. 226 The accents of a trumpery rhetorician. 1869 A. Trollope He knew he was Right I. xvi. 127 It seems a trumpery quarrel,—as to who should beg each other's pardon first. Derivatives ˈtrumperiness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > paltriness, meanness, or contempt miserableness1633 meannessa1656 narrowness1661 sorriness1668 paltriness1727 threadbareness1771 wretchedness1810 trumperiness1868 picayunishness1870 threadbarity1892 1868 A. K. H. Boyd Lessons Middle Age 271 How these things impress the lover of Gothic who dwells in a country of churches of inexpressible trumperiness and shabbiness! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1481
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