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1compliment — I. n. 1. Praise, commendation, encomium, laudation, good word. 2. Formal praise, hollow commendation, empty encomium, flattering remark, ceremonious phrase or flattery. II. v. a. 1. Praise, commend, flatter (by expressions of civility). 2.… …
2The Adventure of the Empty House — The Adventure of the Empty House, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes .ynopsisContextThis is the first Holmes… …
3flummery — n. 1. Sowens, sowins or sowans, porridge (made of the dust of oatmeal). 2. Trash, frivolity, chaff, moonshine, trifling, froth, frippery, empty nonsense. 3. Flattery, adulation, blandishment, blarney, empty compliment …
4flum|mer|y — «FLUHM uhr ee», noun, plural mer|ies. 1. a) a pudding made of milk, eggs, flour, sugar, etc. b) a heavy pudding made of oatmeal or flour boiled with water. 2. Figurative. an empty compliment; empty trifling; nonsense: »a fine flummery about… …
5Flummery — Flum mer*y, n. [W. llumru, or llumruwd, a kind of food made of oatmeal steeped in water until it has turned sour, fr. llumrig harsh, raw, crude, fr. llum sharp, severe.] 1. A light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap.… …
6flummery — n 1. oatmeal, gruel, U.S. mush, hot cereal, Chiefly Brit. porridge, farina; fruit custard, blancmange, white pudding. 2. nonsense, moonshine, gobbledegook; foolish humbug, bunkum or buncombe, Sl. bunk, U.S. Sl. blah; balderdash, Inf. hokum, Sl.… …
7formality — n 1. convention, form, observance; usage, practice, custom, wont, Inf. the way it s done, protocol, Inf.S.O.P.; ceremony, ritual, rite, service, liturgy. 2. rigidity, inflexibility, stiffness; strictness, exactness, punctilio, precision. 3.… …
8flummery — /ˈflʌməri/ (say flumuhree) noun (plural flummeries) 1. a fruit flavoured jelly mixture, sometimes thickened with flour, beaten until fluffy and allowed to set. 2. a soft jelly made by boiling oatmeal or flour with water, straining and allowing to …
9List of minor Ranma ½ characters (manga) — The following Ranma ½ minor characters appear only in the manga and are listed alphabetically. For anime only minor characters, please see Minor characters of the Ranma ½ anime; for minor characters common to both the manga and anime, please see… …
10Sherlock Holmes — Infobox character colour = #DEDEE2 name = Sherlock Holmes caption = A portrait of Sherlock Holmes by Sidney Paget from the Strand Magazine , 1891 first = last = cause = creator = Sir Arthur Conan Doyle portrayer = episode = Four novelsFifty six… …
