• n. 假恭維；柔軟易食的食品

改寫自威爾干語llymru, 一種酸甜的燕麥糊，后用于指一種蛋奶甜點(diǎn)心。由甜點(diǎn)引申詞義恭維。

flummery (n.)

1620s, a type of coagulated food, from Welsh llymru "sour oatmeal jelly boiled with the husks," of uncertain origin. Later of a sweet dish in cookery (1747). Figurative use, of flattery, empty talk, is from 1740s.

1. She hated the flummery of public relations.

她討厭公關(guān)工作中的虛夸恭維。

來自《權(quán)威詞典》

2. Where was our great Island h! eritage portrayed in all this flummery?

在這堆亂七八糟的糟粕里頭,我們這個偉大島嶼的傳承卻無處可見.

來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)

3. All the rest is flummery.

其它什么都是廢話.

來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)