Dictionary

flapdoodle en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈflæpˌduːdl̩/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈflæpˌdud(ə)l/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Nonsense.
   • ‘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.’ 1834 [1832], Frederick Marryat, chapter 28, in Peter Simple:
   • Why, with my sternest critic's pencil in my hand, its lead as black as my heart, did I not write the word “flapdoodle” in the margin at that point? 2006 October 7, Nicholas Lezard, “In bed with Tracey Emin”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
   • It is not worth falling into dispute over such a flapdoodle of a vestimentary matter. 2007, The Times:
   • Fiddlesticks and flapdoodle 1974, Bagpuss (TV series):
2. (countable) Thingamabob.
   • Suppose you invent a flapdoodle. The flapdoodle can be any color, but your "preferred" flapdoodle is colored red. 2008, Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society:
   • What other playwright would dare populate his plays with space aliens, dancing plates and spoons, vampires, girl huns, mystic furballs and bodacious flapdoodles? 1999, American Theatre - Volume 16, page 17:
   • Then there was the noble but unseen army of perspiring heroes who wrestled with furniture and wings and other flapdoodles behind the curtain. 1929, Lisgar Collegiate Institute, Vox Lycei 1928-1929, page 43:
3. (countable) A speaker or writer of nonsense.
   • 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.” 1893, Annie Besant, Annie Besant: An Autobiography, page 363:
   • As for the others, no one cares a brass farthing what Olcott and his "flapdoodles" may do or say. 1895, St. Martin's-le-grand - Volume 5, page 102:

Forms

Deriveds

flapdoodler · flapdoodlery

Synonyms

horse puckey · Greek · eyewash · piffle · nonsense · trittle trattle · wass · stuff · blatherskite · bosh · bulldust · hooey · foolishness · galimatias · shite · jimjam · Irish bull · blah · gossip · junk · Bandini · rhubarb · santorum · moonshine · ruse · put-on · drivel · word salad · codswallop · gup · horsefeathers · rigmarole · baloney · double Dutch · meaninglessness · hocus-pocus · pie in the sky · claptrap · squit · tosh · macaroni · fiddle-faddle · batshit · Gallophone · nertz · flizz · shit · mumbo jumbo · hokum · jive · crock of shit · jabberwocky · bull feathers · all my eye · jargon · gibberish · dribble · manure · bushwah · lallation · cobblers · stuff and nonsense · twaddle · poppycock · flim-flam · absurdity · tommy-rot · fuckry · bilgewater · double talk · garble · all my eye and Betty Martin · malarkey · garbage · skimble-skamble · horse hockey · balls · flummery · bunk · crap · blah-blah · bollocks · tripe · whiff-whaff · guff · bunkum · batcrap · BS · prattle · apple grease · clamjamfrey · humbug · doublespeak · baragouin · fuckery · bullspeak · blather · hogwash · rhubarb rhubarb · fudge · folderol · applesauce · gobbledygook · gash · horse piss · rot · flapdoodle · jabber · rubbish · balderdash · trash · bullshit · hoax · footle · horse cock · jibber-jabber · crock · tush · gibber · bullcrap · pigswill · framis · banana oil · bobbins · bull · blah-blah-blah · bafflegab · horseshit

flapdoodle en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈflæpˌduːdl̩/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈflæpˌdud(ə)l/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. To con; to deceive with nonsense.
   • Now, however the innocents may be flapdoodled by such jugglery the guilties remain undeceived. 1911, The Conservator - Volumes 22-24, page 28:
   • Whilst acknowledging the accolade and honour, I wasn't happy and 'flapdoodled' to try and get out of it. 1988, British Homing World - Volume 61, page 35:
   • This Vok, or Cole, undoubtedly flapdoodled the witnesses into thinking he was skinny then flipped open his false hump and let the demoniacal pixie out to do its fell business. 2014, Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy:

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