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flubdub

[ fluhb-duhb ]

noun

, Slang.
  1. pretentious nonsense or show; airs.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of flubdub1

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90; origin uncertain
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Example Sentences

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.

Some of it is plainly superfluous and some of it should be dismissed immediately as the merest flubdub and flapdoodle�inherited rubbish.

The standard Hollywood windmilling followed �and then the standard flubdub to the press.

His most famous specialty is baiting William Green: "Come, come, Mr. Green, will you stop handing us that flubdub?"

Rumpty-tumpty, pimplety-pan— The flubdub courted a catamaran But timplety-topplety, timpity-tare— The flubdub wedded the big blue bear!

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