flapdoodle
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of flapdoodle
First recorded in 1820–30; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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In other words, Rakoff isn’t a judge you should try snowing with technological flapdoodle.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026
Now, I remember some silly flapdoodle about vessels and chalices and secret societies, but not much else.
From Washington Post • May 1, 2019
Most of what Douthat proposes here is either entirely incomprehensible flapdoodle or warmed-over analysis from 20 years ago.
From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2017
She blurs these borders in order to simultaneously honor and disparage art’s greatest article of faith-based flapdoodle: authenticity.
From Salon • Oct. 20, 2012
So ended what has grandiloquently been termed "an Australian engagement," which, I may add, is just the kind of flapdoodle our troopers do not want.
From Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front by Hales, A. G. (Alfred Greenwood)
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