flap-doodle

And I should even like to deliver an address there which would be a protest against the universal modern flap-doodle.

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 2003

The origin of the term is obscure, some authorities connecting it with the term "flap-doodle," others with the motion of a bird's wings, and

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 21, 1917 Various

Or a man who backs out of his vows by trading off the sloppiest kind of flap-doodle about not wishing to blight the hopes of his dearest friend.

Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 23, 1892 Various

She lived in the ordinary environment of flap-doodle and sweet hypocrisy and sentimentality; and none such can more than vaguely glimpse the realities.

The Price She Paid. 1911

And then the flap-doodle about dead Caesar's wounds, and their poor dumb mouths, and the people kissing them, and dipping their handkerchiefs in his sacred blood.

The Rising of the Court Henry Lawson 1894

He gets himself written up in the local papers here as the model warden -- warm-hearted and broad-minded, and all that flap-doodle!

The Subterranean Brotherhood Julian Hawthorne 1890

She lived in the ordinary environment of flap-doodle and sweet hypocrisy and sentimentality; and none such can more than vaguely glimpse the realities.

The Price She Paid David Graham Phillips 1889

"That was only his excuse -- mere flap-doodle!" interrupted the pessimistic Jerrold.

From Sand Hill to Pine Bret Harte 1869

"It's my opinion, Peter, that the gentleman has eaten no small quantity of _flap-doodle_ in his lifetime."

Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 Frederick Marryat 1820

And for all the flap-doodle about "sacred ground" ON the former WTC site, how come it is, then, that none of these "sanctifiers" aren't screaming bloody murder about the plans to construct another commercial/business/office complex ON that site to replace what was destroyed?

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