(Welsh, llymru.) A kind of food made by coagulation of wheat-flour or oat-meal; and hence, flattery.--Johnson. We use it only in the latter or figurative sense.
I allow of orange and buttermilk possets, of roasted apples, flummery, or any other light and cooling thing they call for.-- Boyle, Works.
In wrath the king: "Cease, hypocrite!
Your flummery helps you not a whit!"--Reynard the Fox.