flummery

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Besides, I do not know where that land lies, the land of the old Fashionable Novel, the Kôr of which Thackeray’s Lady Fanny Flummery is the Ayesha. 

From Essays in Little by Lang, Andrew

Mrs. Flummery in her presentation-dress'.. except Mrs. Flummery's own particular friends? … or '283.

From Ardath by Corelli, Marie

A public instructor jumped up in the person of Mr. Flummery Flam, the least insinuating and the least plausible personage that ever performed the easy task of gulling a nation.

From The Voyage of Captain Popanilla by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

In the meantime, up jumps a public instructor, Flummery Flam, who ascribes all the debt and distress to "a slight over-trading," chatters about demand, supply, rent, wages, profit, and, as a temporary relief, suggests "emigration."

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 322, July 12, 1828 by Various

What is Gyp but a Lady Fanny Flummery réussie,—Lady Fanny with the trifling additional qualities of wit and daring? 

From Essays in Little by Lang, Andrew