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flapdoodle, n. colloq.|flæpˈduːd(ə)l|
[An arbitrary formation; cf. fadoodle.]
1. (See quot. 1833.)
1833Marryat P. Simple (1863) 210 ‘The gentleman has eaten no small quantity of flapdoodle in his lifetime.’ ‘What's that, O'Brien?’ replied I... ‘Why, Peter,’ rejoined he, ‘it's the stuff they feed fools on.’ 1863Kingsley Water-bab. vi. (1878) 266 Where flapdoodle grows wild.
2. a. Nonsense; ‘bosh’; humbug. Also as int. b. A trifling thing, a gewgaw.
1878Besant & Rice Celia's Arb. II. iii. 43 A bit of lace now, or any other fal-lal and flap-doodle. Ibid., III. vii. 101 ‘Fudge and flapdoodle!’ 1884Mark Twain Huck. Finn xxv, A speech, all full of tears and flapdoodle.
attrib.1891B. Harte First Family Tasajara II. vii, Reading flapdoodle stories and sich.
Hence flap-ˈdoodle v. intr., to talk nonsense; to maunder. flap-ˈdoodler [-er1] (see quot.).
1889Barrère & Leland Slang, Flapdoodlers (journalistic), charlatan namby-pamby political speakers. 1893Westm. Gaz. 11 July 2/1 He flapdoodled round the subject in the usual Archiepiscopal way. |