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flubdub

American  
[fluhb-duhb] / ˈflʌbˌdʌb /

noun

Slang.
  1. pretentious nonsense or show; airs.


Etymology

Origin of flubdub

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90; origin uncertain


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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

All the flubdub this Werder girl got off to-night puts me in mind of the way I talked that day.

From Ramsey Milholland by Booth Tarkington

I have no mission or message or any flubdub of that kind.

From The Fun of Getting Thin How to Be Happy and Reduce the Waist Line by Samuel G. (Samuel George) Blythe

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

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