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 Rudyard Kipling
But he can’t scare me out with flubdub about heart murmur, for I know the heart was murmuring, and the prospective Mrs. Tucker does, too.
From The Best Policy by Elliott Flower
I was remembering some of the fulsome flubdub I'd read about him.
From A Woman Named Smith by Marie Conway Oemler
Rumpty-tumpty, pimplety-pan— The flubdub courted a catamaran But timplety-topplety, timpity-tare— The flubdub wedded the big blue bear!
From The Holy Cross and Other Tales by Eugene Field
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