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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TRUMP'ERY, n. Falsehood; empty talk.
1. Useless matter; things worn out and cast side.
[This is the sense of the word in New England.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: nonsensical talk or writing [syn: folderol, rubbish, tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash, applesauce, codswallop]
2: ornamental objects of no great value [syn: folderal, falderol, frill, gimcrackery, gimcrack, nonsense, trumpery]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English (Scots) trompery deceit, from Middle French, from tromper to deceive Date: 15th century 1. a. worthless nonsense b. trivial or useless articles ; junk <a wagon loaded with household trumpery — Washington Irving> 2. archaic tawdry finery • trumpery adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & adj. --n. (pl. -ies) 1 a worthless finery. b a worthless article. 2 rubbish. --adj. 1 showy but worthless (trumpery jewels). 2 delusive, shallow (trumpery arguments). Etymology: ME f. OF tromperie f. tromper deceive

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Trumpery Trump"er*y, n. [F. tromperie deceit, fr. tromper to deceive. See Trump to trick.] 1. Deceit; fraud. [Obs.] --Grenewey. 2. Something serving to deceive by false show or pretense; falsehood; deceit; worthless but showy matter; hence, things worn out and of no value; rubbish. The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither, for state to catch these thieves. --Shak. Upon the coming of Christ, very much, though not all, of this idolatrous trumpery and superstition was driven out of the world. --South.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Trumpery Trump"er*y, a. Worthless or deceptive in character. ``A trumpery little ring.'' --Thackeray.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. 1. Falsehood, deceit, imposture, humbug, deception. 2. Trash, rubbish, stuff, frippery, worthless finery, trifles. II. a. Worthless, good for nothing, trifling, trashy, rubbishy, pinchbeck.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

An old whore, or goods of no value; rubbish.

Moby Thesaurus

absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, base, bibble-babble, bilge, blabber, blather, bombast, bravery, bric-a-brac, bunkum, bushwa, chaff, cheesy, chicken feed, chickenshit, chiffon, claptrap, clinquant, common, details, double-talk, drivel, drool, festoons, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, finery, flimflam, flummery, folderol, foofaraw, frilliness, frilling, frills, frills and furbelows, frippery, froth, froufrou, fudge, fuss, fustian, gabble, gaiety, galimatias, gammon, gaudery, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gilding, gilt, gimcrackery, gingerbread, gobbledygook, hocus-pocus, hokum, humbug, jabber, jargon, knickknackery, malarkey, mean, minutiae, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense, pack of nonsense, palaver, paltry, paste, peanuts, pinchbeck, poor, prate, prattle, rant, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rubbish, rubbishy, shoddy, skimble-skamble, small beer, small change, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, superfluity, tinsel, trappings, trash, trashy, trickery, trifles, trivia, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vaporing, waffling