flap·doo·dle also flap-doo·dle (flāp'dōōd'l) n.
Slang Foolish talk; nonsense: "Behind the tourist flap-doodle, authentic [Key West] cooking is produced by the descendants of Bahamian English and Cubans, who migrated to this coral reef over a century ago"(Betty Fussell).
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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flapdoodle
1833, originally "the stuff they feed fools on" [Marryat]; an arbitrary formation.