flapdoodle

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flapdoodle

/ˈflæpˌduːdl̩/ UK
/ˈflæpˌdud(ə)l/ US

noun flapdoodles · flamdoodle · flap-doodle · flap doodle · doodleflap · flipdoodle

uncountable 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.’
Similar: absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, apple grease, applesauce, bafflegab, balderdash, balls, baloney, banana oil, Bandini, baragouin
countable Thingamabob. Then there was the noble but unseen army of perspiring heroes who wrestled with furniture and wings and other flapdoodles behind the curtain.
countable 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.”

verb flapdoodles · flapdoodling · flapdoodled · flamdoodle · flap-doodle

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

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@misc{flapdoodle_2026,
  title = {flapdoodle},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/flapdoodle},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}