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flapdoodle

UK /ˈflæpˌduːdl̩/US /ˈflæpˌdud(ə)l/

noun 3
verb 1
forms 3

noun3

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Nonsense.
- ‘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.’ — 1834
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Thingamabob.
- Then there was the noble but unseen army of perspiring heroes who wrestled with furniture and wings and other flapdoodles behind the curtain. — 1929
•
A speaker or writer of nonsense.
- Here, So-and-so ”—to some one on whose countenance a faint gleam of comprehension was discernible—“ tell these flapdoodles of the ages what I mean.” — 1893

verb1

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To con; to deceive with nonsense.
- Now, however the innocents may be flapdoodled by such jugglery the guilties remain undeceived. — 1911

forms

flapdoodled · flapdoodling · flapdoodles

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