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American Heritage Dictionary (1 definition)
- 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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Century Dictionary (2 definitions)
- The stuff on which fools are feigned to be nourished; food for fools.
- Transparent pretense or nonsense, as gross flattery, nonsensical talk, or foolish boasting.
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Wiktionary (2 definitions)
- nonsense
- Speakers and writers of nonsense.
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But when an imported greenhorn dares to call his flapdoodle mixture 'Californian,' it is an insult to the State that has produced the gifted 'Yellow Hammer,' whose lofty flights have from time to time dazzled our readers in the columns of the 'Jay Hawk.'
So ended what has grandiloquently been termed "an Australian engagement," which, I may add, is just the kind of flapdoodle our troopers do not want.
You're the last man I ever expected to hear that kind of flapdoodle from.
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