flapdoodle

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"I'm not in the mood for flapdoodle, Gomez," said Harmon, perching on the edge of a dicta desk "Twenty-five hundred smackers is a mere spit in the deep blue sea to a top seed private eye outfit like yours.

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  1. noun Slang Foolish talk; nonsense: "Behind the tourist flap-doodle, authentic [Key West] cooking is produced by the descendants of Bahamian English and Cubans, who migrated to this coral reef over a century ago” (Betty Fussell).

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  • When we return, the sensation and the official flapdoodle are going to make what happened after the red sun business seem like a session of the garden committee of the Philosophical Society. —  Inconstant Star
  • Then Switters said, "In regards to my personal proclivities, you're generating considerable flapdoodle. —  Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
  • "I'm not in the mood for flapdoodle, Gomez," said Harmon, perching on the edge of a dicta desk "Twenty-five hundred smackers is a mere spit in the deep blue sea to a top seed private eye outfit like yours. —  Kahen no Ame
  • I happen to have a soft spot for flapdoodle. —  Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
 

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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. from flap, stroke (hence ‘flatter’?), + doodle, a simpleton, fool.
 

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/ˈflæpdudl/
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