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flap doodle
flap·doo·dle
/
ˈflæpˌdud
l
/
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[
flap
-dood-l
]
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noun
Informal.
nonsense; bosh.
Origin:
1820–30;
origin uncertain
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flapdoodle
(ˈflæpˌduːd
ə
l)
—
n
slang
foolish talk; nonsense
[C19: of unknown origin]
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Word Origin & History
flapdoodle
1833, originally "the stuff they feed fools on" [Marryat]; an arbitrary formation.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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flapdoodle definition
[ˈflæpdudlæ] and [ˈflæmdudlæ]
and flamdoodle
n.
nonsense. :
I've heard enough of this flapdoodle.
,
That's all a lot of flamdoodle!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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"That is to say, he writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abysm (I was about to write abscess!) of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash."
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