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flapdoodle

[ flap-dood-l ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Informal.

flapdoodle

/ ˈflæpˌduːdəl /

First recorded in 1820–30; origin uncertain

C19: of unknown origin

But instead we are getting the flapdoodle campaign, in which more and more ado is made about less and less.

You're the last man I ever expected to hear that kind of flapdoodle from.

Ye know that boy, gentlemen; ye know how he uster lie round his father's store, reading flapdoodle stories and sich!

Ye remember how he sashayed round newspaper offices in 'Frisco until he could write a flapdoodle story himself?

It was the natural expression of two minds that were too great to be verbose or to monkey with social, conversational flapdoodle.

Reckoning a man's life by years is the biggest sort of flapdoodle.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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