Flapdoodle
noun, verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Nonsense. uncountable
"‘The gentleman has eaten no small quantity of flapdoodle in his lifetime.’ ‘What’s that, O’Brien?’ replied I. ‘Why, Peter,’ rejoined he, ‘it’s the stuff they feed fools on.’"
- 2 Thingamabob. countable
"Then there was the noble but unseen army of perspiring heroes who wrestled with furniture and wings and other flapdoodles behind the curtain."
- 3 A speaker or writer of nonsense. countable
"Here, So-and-so ”—to some one on whose countenance a faint gleam of comprehension was discernible—“ tell these flapdoodles of the ages what I mean.”"
- 1 To con; to deceive with nonsense.
"Now, however the innocents may be flapdoodled by such jugglery the guilties remain undeceived."
Example
More examples"‘The gentleman has eaten no small quantity of flapdoodle in his lifetime.’ ‘What’s that, O’Brien?’ replied I. ‘Why, Peter,’ rejoined he, ‘it’s the stuff they feed fools on.’"
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