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A soft jelly or porridge made of flour or meal.

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Usage examples (8)
  • He has the odd feeling, in moments of reverie or honest despair, that he is speaking lines prepared somewhere far away (not far away in space, but in levels of power), and that...
  • Let it be recorded, as Paul Krugman and Josh Marshall have noted, that John McCain's various camouflages, smokescreens and flummeries regarding the subject of government...
  • Stop building flummeries in the air from tiny samples of data.
  • She says I've got to have one, and she insists on sewing at home on all sorts of fool flummeries for some dressmaker so I can.
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