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Flummery refers to a type of sweet, gelatinous dish made from fruit juice or other flavorings mixed with a starch, often served as a dessert. More broadly, the term is also used to describe insincere or nonsensical talk or behavior, often meant to impress or deceive. In both contexts, it conveys a sense of superficiality or frivolity.
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When do you use the word flummery?
The word flummery means empty or meaningless language, most often applied to sycophantic flattery or praise. It can also mean a soft, starchy pudding dessert. Example: The king accepted the flummery of his advisors, ignoring the discontent of the populace. The overdrawn, sluggish debates in Congress are decried as flummery by its critics.
What is a Fruit custard or blancmange usually thickened with corn flour called?
FLUMMERY
What is twin room?
It is a piece of flummery, or spin. It simply means 'shared accomodation' or two beds in the one room, not 2 rooms.
John Adams favorite food?
pickled cucumbers, kale & onions, boiled potatoes, duck, ham, gingerbread, sweets, cakes, tarts, jellies, floating islands, tea, coffee, punch, wine, and beer.
What is the synonym for frivolity?
Take your pick from coquetting, dallying, flightiness, flippancy, flirting, flummery, folly, fribble, frippery, frivolousness, fun, gaiety, game, giddiness, jest, levity, lightheartedness, lightness, nonsense, play, puerility, shallowness, sport, superficiality, toying, trifling, triviality, volatility, whimsicality, whimsy
Would anyone have a recipe for flummery- a sweet using jelly and carnation milk?
I believe my mum used to make this, 1 tin of light evaporated milk( kept in fridge at least overnight)and two jellys.( she used the diet version) Make up the jellys using only half a cup of water, cool them whip the cool jelly and cold milk till frothy. refrigerate then serve
Why Britain industrialized?
Before industrialization (about 1780 onwards) Britain was a - the even the - leading trading country of the time; it was capitalist (despite some latter-day 'feudal' flummery) and it had the main Natural Resources required at the time - coal and iron ore. Britain was also free from internal customs barriers and constituted a large and relatively domestic market. Britain also had the advantage of being in Western Europe, on the Atlantic seaboard.
What are some eight letter words with 1st letter F and 2nd letter L and 3rd letter U and 4th letter M?
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 2 words with the pattern FLUM----. That is, eight letter words with 1st letter F and 2nd letter L and 3rd letter U and 4th letter M. In alphabetical order, they are: flummery flumping
What are some eight letter words with 1st letter F and 2nd letter L and 5th letter M and 6th letter E?
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 2 words with the pattern FL--ME--. That is, eight letter words with 1st letter F and 2nd letter L and 5th letter M and 6th letter E. In alphabetical order, they are: flehmens flummery
What are some eight letter words with 2nd letter L and 5th letter M and 7th letter R and 8th letter Y?
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 3 words with the pattern -L--M-RY. That is, eight letter words with 2nd letter L and 5th letter M and 7th letter R and 8th letter Y. In alphabetical order, they are: bloomery flummery glimmery
What are some eight letter words with 1st letter F and 3rd letter U and 4th letter M and 5th letter M and 7th letter R?
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 1 words with the pattern F-UMM-R-. That is, eight letter words with 1st letter F and 3rd letter U and 4th letter M and 5th letter M and 7th letter R. In alphabetical order, they are: flummery
What does descriptor mean?
It mean what you don't what does it mean.
