flapdoodle
Noun

flapdoodle

  1. (uncountable) nonsense
    • 2007, The Times :
      It is not worth falling into dispute over such a flapdoodle of a vestimentary matter.
    • 1832-3, Metropolitan Magazine :
      ‘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.’
  2. (countable) Thingamabob.
  3. (countable) A speaker or writer of nonsense.
Synonyms Verb

flapdoodle (flapdoodles, present participle flapdoodling; past and past participle flapdoodled)

  1. To con; to deceive with nonsense.



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