flubdub
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of flubdub
An Americanism dating back to 1885–90; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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His most famous specialty is baiting William Green: "Come, come, Mr. Green, will you stop handing us that flubdub?"
From Time Magazine Archive
Any God's quantity of fuss and flubdub to bury a man, and not an ounce of forehandedness in the whole outfit to find out whether he was rightly dead.
From Traffics and Discoveries by Kipling, Rudyard
Usual courtesies—good customer of your bank—you know; usual flubdub.
From Cappy Ricks Retires by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)
I was remembering some of the fulsome flubdub I'd read about him.
From A Woman Named Smith by Oemler, Marie Conway
All the flubdub this Werder girl got off to-night puts me in mind of the way I talked that day.
From Ramsey Milholland by Tarkington, Booth
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