Trumpery

Definition: Trumpery

Trumpery

Adjective

1. Gaudy and showy but valueless; "trumpery ornaments".

Noun

1. Nonsensical talk or writing.

2. Ornamental objects of no great value.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "trumpery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Trumpery

Unimportance

Trumpery, trash, rubbish, stuff, fatras, frippery; " leather or prunello "; chaff, drug, froth bubble smoke, cobweb; weed; refuse; (inutility); scum; (dirt).

Poor, paltry, pitiful; contemptible; (contempt); sorry, mean, meager, shabby, miserable, wretched, vile, scrubby, scrannel, weedy, niggardly, scurvy, putid, beggarly, worthless, twopennyhalfpenny, cheap, trashy, catchpenny, gimcrack, trumpery; one-horse. not worth the pains, not worth while, not worth mentioning, not worth speaking of, not worth a thought, not worth a curse, not worth a straw; Noun: beneath notice, unworthy of notice, beneath regard, unworthy of regard, beneath consideration, unworthy of consideration; de lana caprina; vain; (useless).

Unmeaningness

Trashy, washy, trumpery, trivial, fiddle-faddle, twaddling, quibbling.

Crosswords: Trumpery

Expression using "trumpery": trumpery ring. Additional references.

Albanian

gjëra të pavlera. (various references)

Arabic 

‏هراء (balderdash, baloney, boloney, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunk, claptrap, drivel, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, fudge, hocus pocus, humbug, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, piffling, ramble, rigmarole, rot, rubbish, slush, tosh, trash, wind), ‏تافه (banal, commonplace, contemptible, crummy, fade, fiddling, flat, foolish, footling, fractional, frivolous, frothy, good for nothing, inane, inconsiderable, insignificant, junk, light, lilliputian, little, lowbrow, measly, minute, naught, negligible, niggling, nonsensical, nugatory, null, paltry, pedestrian, petty, piddling, pimping, piteous, pitiable, platitudinous, pointless, puny, ridiculous, run of the mill, silly, slight, slim, small time, smelly, stupid, trifle, trifling, trite, trivial, two a penny, two bit, twopenny-halfpenny, unimportant, unsavory, unsavoury, unworthy, vain, valueless, vapid, vile, worthless), ‏عديم النفع (forceless), ‏صارخ (blatant, crying, flamboyant, fortissimo, garish, gaudy, jarring, loud, lurid, noisy, outrageous, rank, sharp, showy, staring, violent), ‏أشياء تافهة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

труфила (finery, frippery), крещящ (blatant, clamant, dashing, flamboyant, flaring, flashy, garish, glaring, howling, jazz, loud, meretricious, noisy, obvious, screaming, screamy, showy, sporty, tinsel, vociferous, zizzi), глупости (all my eye, applesauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blah, bleat, blether, boloney, bosh, bull, bullshit, buncombe, cod, crap, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flapdoodle, footle, fudge, guff, gup, hokum, humbug, jiggery pokery, junk, kibosh, monkey business, monkeybusiness, nonsense, nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rhubarb, rot, rubbish, shit, shucks, slush, stuff and nonsense, tack, tommy rot, truck), глупав (anserine, asinine, blackhearted, blithering, blockish, blunt, brainless, cockscomb, crass, daft, dense, dim witted, dopey, dopy, dozy, fat, fatuous, flat-footed, fool, foolish, footless, footling, goofy, hebetate, inane, inept, irrational, lame brain, lumpish, lunatic, mindless, mutton-headed, nonsensical, off one's nut, piffling, puddingy, puerile, purblind, sappy, senseless, silly, simple, slow witted, stockish, stupid, thick, thick-skulled, thick-witted, tomfool, unintelligent, unwise, vacant, vacuous, whacked, witless, wooden-headed), евтин (brummagem, cheap, cheesy, dime, gaudy, halfpenny, hand-me-down, inexpensive, jitney, light, meretricious, sleazy, tawdry, tinsel, two bit, twopence colored, twopence coloured, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, uncostly), показен (ostensible, ostentatious, show, showy, specious, theatrical), повърхностен (airy, blanket, borax, cheap, cursory, dilettante, external, facile, flimsy, frothy, glib, lip-deep, outward, perfunctory, shallow, sketchy, skin deep, slick, subaerial, sublime, superficial, surface, terrain, yeasty), дрънкулки (frippery, rattletraps). (various references)

Czech

nesmysl (absurdity, balderdash, bunk, nonsense, nuts, rot, rubbish, tripe), cetky (brick-a-brac), šmejd (dog, junk, shoddy, trash, tripe). (various references)

French

sans valeur (trivial), criard, camelote (trash), bêtises (tripe). (various references)

German

Tand (frippery, knickknacks, trinkets). (various references)

Greek 

στολίδια μικράσ αξίασ, μπιχλιμπίδια, φανταχτερόσ αλλά φτηνόσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

שטויות (applesauce, balderdash, baloney, bunk, drivel, moonshine, nonsense, nuts, rot, rubbish, stuff and nonsense, tommyrot, tosh, trash), צעק� י וזול. (various references)

Hungarian

bóvli (brummagem ware, bum, catchpenny, chintzy, piece of junk, rubbishy, shoddy), ócska holmi (clobber, duds). (various references)

Italian

vistoso (blatant, catchy, considerable, dashing, flashy, garish, gaudy, gorgeous, important, large, loud, meretricious, noisy, showy, tawdry), appariscente (blatant, showy, striking). (various references)

Pig Latin

umperytray

Portuguese

refugo (cull, dirt, garbage, jetsam, mullock, offal, offscourings, raffle, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, scum, spoilage, trash, waste), pacotilha, ouropel (ormolu, pinchbeck, tinsel), mercadoria inferior, imitação de jóias, entulho (brash, gob, mullock, raffle, refuse, rubbish, trash). (various references)

Romanian

strãlucire falsã, lucruri de nimic, fals (apparent, artificial, bad, base, bogus, cant, colourable, counterfeit, deceitful, double dealing, dud, dummy, erroneous, erroneously, error, factitious, fake, false, falsehood, feigned, flash, forged, forgery, fraud, glossy, hollow, hollow-hearted, imitation, imposture, insincere, lying, mendacious, mistaken, mock, painted, phony, plugged, reprobate, sham, spurious, sugary, tinsel, treacherous, truthless, two faced, unnatural, unnaturally, untrue, wrong, wrongfully), fãrã valoare (cheap, frothy, good for nothing, halfpenny, indifferent, mean, measly, odd trifles, pale, piffling, simple, threepenny, trashy, trivial, useless, void, worthless), breloc (charm, pendant, trinket). (various references)

Russian 

мишура (frippery, gewgaw, gimcrack, knick-knackery, ostentation, tinsel). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tričarije (catchpenny), prevara (bilk, blind, bubble, cheat, chicanery, confidence trick, deceit, deception, dodge, double cross, dupery, eyewash, fake, flimflam, fraud, gammon, guile, gyp, plant, racket, ruse, setup, trick), koještarije (rubbish). (various references)

Spanish

tontería (dispensation, farce, folly, foolery, foolishness, jiggery pokery, nonsense, silliness), sin valor (Duff, inestimable, miserable, valueless, worthless), sin importancia (minor, unimportant), relumbrón (flash), oropel (glamor, glamour, tinsel), frívolo (airy, flighty, fribble, frivolous, giddy, skittish, trifling, trivial), de relumbrón (flashy, tinsel). (various references)

Swedish

värdelös (chaffy, cheesy, crappy, fustian, naught, ne'erdoweel, no go, null, punk, straw, trivial, useless, valueless, vile, worthless), struntprat (all my eye, all my eyes, apple sauce, baloney, eyewash, falderal, fiddlededee, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, humbug, jargon, nonsense, poppycock, stuff, tosh), grannlåt (bauble, display, frills, frippery, furbelows, gaud, gewgaw, show, tawdriness, trappings). (various references)

Turkish

ucuz (cheap, cheaply, dime, dirt cheap, giveaway, inexpensive, keen, low, reach-me-down, two bit), saçma (absurd, applesauce, balls, baloney, blind, boloney, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, chimerical, claptrap, cockeyed, dissemination, eradiation, fantastic, fantastical, farcical, fatuous, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, fiddlesticks, foolish, for the birds, froth, frothy, fudge, go on, hog-wash, hooey, impertinent, inane, incongruous, inept, irrational, jabber wocky, kibosh, laugh, malarkey, nonsense, nonsensical, outlandish, paltry, pointless, poppycock, raving, rhubarb, rot, scattering, senseless, shot, shucks, skittles, small shot, smearcase, sorry, spinach, stuff, tommyrot, tosh, trash, trifling, tripe, trivial, unreasonable, wacky, waffle, whacky), süprüntü (brushing, candle-end, dreg, dregs, dross, garbage, offscourings, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, sweepings, sweeps), değersiz şey (cheeseparing, damn, falderal, gold brick, junk, lemon, rag, shoddy, slush, small beer, stiver, trifle), değersiz (cheap, despicable, footling, inferior, insignificant, jerkwater, measly, milk and water, niggardly, no-account, nonvalent, non-valent, nugatory, of no worth, paltry, pitiable, punk, rubbishy, shoddy, tinpot, trashy, trivial, two bit, valueless, vile, worthless), boş (airy, barren, blank, bootless, captious, chimerical, desert, disengaged, empty, expressionless, fallacious, flat, for hire, free, frivolous, frothy, futile, gaseous, hollow, idle, inane, ineffective, ineffectual, invalid, leisure, meaningless, nugatory, null, pointless, puerile, punk, purposeless, spare, tenantless, thin, unbuilt, unbuilt-on, unengaged, unfounded, unoccupied, unprofitable, unrecorded, unwritten-on, vacant, vacuous, vain, void, waste, windy, wishywashy, without any foundation, without foundation, yeasty). (various references)

Ukrainian

казна-що (bah, ballyhoo, skittles), непридатний (chaffy, good for nothing, ineligible, insufficient, non-effective, of no avail, outcast, refuse, unfit, unsuitable, unusable, useless, without avail), мішурний (gewgaw, gimcrack, tinsel), мішура (frippery, gaud, gewgaw, tinsel). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vật vô giá trị lời nhảm nhí dại dột, h� o nhoáng bề ngo� i chỉ đúng bề ngo� i, h� ng mã vật tạp nhạp, chỉ tốt mã, đ�" mã (tinsel). (various references)

scruta. (various references)

Misspellings

"Trumpery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: trampey, Tremper, Tromper, Trumhere, trumpa, trumpe, trumper, trumpety, trumphery. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: murrey.

-3 letters: empty, erupt, merry, murre, murry, muter, perry, pryer, purer, retry, terry, truer, trump, tuyer.

-4 letters: mure, murr, mute, perm, pert, prey, pure, purr, pyre, ruer, rump, temp, term, trey, true, tump, tyer, type, tyre, yurt.

-5 letters: emu, err, met, mut, per, pet, pry, pur, put, pye, rem, rep, ret, rue, rum, rut.

+1 letter: pyrethrum.

+2 letters: pyrethrums.

+3 letters: prematurely, prematurity.

+5 letters: imperturbably, perambulatory, supermajority, supersymmetry.