Flummery
Chamber's Etymological of the English Language · 1895 · p. 194
flu in'cr-i, n. an aad jelly made from the busks of oais, the Scotch soweus anything — insipid em|)ty compliment. (W. llymty Ilyin* rig, harsh, raw llym, sharp, severe.] Flung, flung, pa and pa.p. of Fling. Flunky or Flunkey, flung'ki, n. a livery servant a footman a mean, cringing fellow.—w. FlUU'- kyism. IProb. Irom Fr flangner, to run along by the side of. cf keuckmau. See Flank.] Fluor, flfRYor, n a beautiful mineral, often crystallised, and usually called Flu'or-spar—adj. Fluor'iC A name given by the alchemists to all mineral aculs because of their fluidity, from L.fluo, to flow.] Fluorine, flo?3'or-in, n. an elementary substance allied to chlorine, obtained chiefly from fluor
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