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flap⋅doo⋅dle

[flap-dood-l]
–noun Informal.
nonsense; bosh.

Origin:
1820–30; orig. uncert.
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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).

[Origin unknown.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
flapdoodle [ˈflæpdudlæ] and [ˈflæmdudlæ]

and flamdoodle
  1. 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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Word Origin & History

flapdoodle 
1833, originally "the stuff they feed fools on" [Marryat]; an arbitrary formation.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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