flummery
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A soft sweet dish made from boiled oatmeal like a pudding
- noun
- /ˈfləməri/
- Archaic
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flan
- She made a rich raspberry flummery for the holiday dinner, impressing all the guests.
Examples
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For dessert, I chose the traditional chocolate flummery topped with whipped cream.
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Flummery.
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The dessert at the party was a delicious flummery that everyone enjoyed.
How Solid
Surface Forms
flummery singular
flummeries plural
Etymology
Flummery began as the name of a soft, bland pudding from Wales, probably from a Welsh word like llymru meaning 'soft' or 'mash'. So it is easy to remember flummery as a simple oatmeal or custard dessert.