flubdubn.
/ˈflʌbdʌb/ Chiefly U.S.
Bombastic or inept language.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > insincere or pretentious talk > [noun]
flash1605
sniffling1653
canting1659
cant1710
galbanum1764
gas1793
blarney1796
gammon1805
slum1812
claptrap1819
flam1825
glittering generality1849
bull's wool1850
eyewash1857
bunkum1862
hot air1873
kid1874
fustian1880
flubdub1888
bull1914
oil1917
blah1918
drip1919
piss and wind1922
banana-oil1927
flannel1927
crud1943
old talk1956
ole talk1964
okey-doke1969
yada yada1991
1888 Detroit Free Press Aug. (Farmer) By swiping out the flub-dub and guff, I guess we'll have room to put in the points.
1902 R. Kipling Traffics & Discov. (1904) 16 Any God's quantity of fuss and flubdub to bury a man.
1904 Rochester Post-Express 13 July 4 There is an immense amount of flubdub and nonsense and gush in this sort of talk.
1908 Herald (Buenos Aires) in Daily Chron. 30 June 4/7 All the oratory and political flub-dub that was ever mouthed or printed.
1928 Daily Express 6 Aug. 8/7 Psychic research..whether mere ‘flub-dub’—like some fortune-telling [etc.].
1952 Daily Mirror (N.Y.) 8 July 11/4 Maybe Mike Todd or Berle should take over the management of the conventions... They would remove much of the amateur flub-dub.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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