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flubdub
[fluhb-duhb]
noun
Slang.
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
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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.
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Some of it is plainly superfluous and some of it should be dismissed immediately as the merest flubdub and flapdoodle�inherited rubbish.
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The standard Hollywood windmilling followed �and then the standard flubdub to the press.
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His most famous specialty is baiting William Green: "Come, come, Mr. Green, will you stop handing us that flubdub?"
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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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