flummery 的定义
plural flum·mer·ies.
- oatmeal or flour boiled with water until thick.
- fruit custard or blancmange usually thickened with cornstarch.
- any of various dishes made of flour, milk, eggs, sugar, etc.
- complete nonsense; foolish humbug.
flummery 近义词
等同于 knickknack
等同于 balderdash
等同于 palaver
等同于 fiddle-faddle
等同于 flattery
flummery 的近义词 41 个
- adulation
- applause
- approbation
- blandishment
- blarney
- cajolery
- commendation
- encomium
- eulogy
- eyewash
- fulsomeness
- gallantry
- gratification
- hokum
- incense
- ingratiation
- jive
- mush
- obsequiousness
- palaver
- plaudits
- puffery
- servility
- smoke
- snow
- stroke
- sycophancy
- tribute
- truckling
- unctuousness
- bootlicking
- fawning
- flattering
- honeyed words
- laud
- pretty speech
- snow job
- soft words
- soft-soap
- sweet talk
- toadyism
flummery 的反义词 8 个
等同于 frivolity
更多flummery例句
- Oh, but surely if we have to call ourselves Wurzel-Flummery it would count as earned income.
- The condition is that with this money—fifty thousand pounds—I take the name of—ah—Wurzel-Flummery.
- My dear Mr. Crawshaw, you didn't think—you didn't really think that anybody had been called Wurzel-Flummery before?
- The Flummery boys and ever so many more of the party are at the front with their regiments.
- Money was squandered on useless court-flummery while men were toiling sixteen hours a day for bread.