flummery

  • 101twaddle — Synonyms and related words: absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, bavardage, bibble babble, blab, blabber, blah blah, blather, blether, blethers, bombast, bosh, bull, bullshit, cackle, caquet, caqueterie, chat, chatter, chitter… …

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  • 102flattery — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Undue adulation Nouns 1. flattery, adulation, blandishment, cajolery; fawning, wheedling, coquetry, sycophancy, flunkeyism, servility, toadying, incense, honeyed words, flummery, blarney; lip service,… …

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  • 103food — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Nourishment Nouns 1. food, aliment, nourishment, nutriment; aliment[ation], foodstuffs, sustenance, nurture, subsistence, provender, daily bread, fodder, provision, ration, keep, commons, board; fare,… …

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  • 104frivolity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. levity, flightiness, giddiness, folly.See unimportance. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. flightiness, triviality, silliness, levity, flippancy, lightness, puerility, trifling, folly, frippery, flummery,… …

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  • 105unmeaningness — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of meaning or sense Nouns 1. unmeaningness, meaninglessness, senselessness, etc.; absurdity, inanity; ambiguity (see unintelligibility); oxymoron. 2. nonsense, verbiage, mere words, empty sound, dead… …

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  • 106Unmeaningness — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Absence of meaning. < N PARAG:Unmeaningness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 unmeaningness unmeaningness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 scrabble scrabble GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 empty sound empty sound dead letter vox et praeterea nihil =&GT …

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  • 107Flattery — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Flattery >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 flattery flattery adulation gloze Sgm: N 1 blandishment blandishment blandiloquence Sgm: N 1 cajolery cajolery Sgm: N 1 fawning fawning wheedling & …

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  • 108Flammeri — Flạm|me|ri 〈m.; Gen.: s, Pl.: s; Kochk.〉 einfache kalte Süßspeise aus Milch od. Fruchtsaft, gedickt mit Grieß, Stärke o. Ä. [Etym.: <engl. flummery »Hafermehlbrei«] …

    Lexikalische Deutsches Wörterbuch

  • 109Flammeri — Flam|me|ri der; [s], s <aus gleichbed. engl. flummery, eigtl. »Haferbrei«, dies aus walisisch llymru »Haferbrei«> eine kalte Süßspeise aus Milch, Zucker, Stärkeprodukten u. Früchten …

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  • 110hooptedoodle —    A literary word that, technically, has no place being in this dictionary. Hooptedoodle is stuff that gets in the way of a story s making progress, it is wordy, unnecessary, space taking, and, typically, should be edited out. Related to… …

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