A dessert name for empty talkSourced
Flummery also became a word for hollow compliments
Flummery names a soft dessert originating in Britain. The word later acquired meanings such as empty compliments and insubstantial talk. In Australia and New Zealand it also came to name a different mousse-like dessert. A food word can travel into judgments about speech.
A pudding name acquired a critical use outside the kitchen.
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