flubdub

I always had a feeling that Zerka was hiding a laugh about something, and especially so when we went through the silly flubdub of Zani ritual.

Carson of Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1939

Ergo, one notion is as good as another, and if it happens to be utter flubdub, so much the better - for it is precisely flubdub that penetrates

Prejudices : first series, 1919

And that is why, when he tackles the maudlin flubdub of the Broadway dons, he does it with the weapons of comedy, and even of farce.

Prejudices : first series, 1919

Usual courtesies -- good customer of your bank -- you know; usual flubdub.

Cappy Ricks Retires 1918

The bombast, the cant, the flapdoodle and flubdub, the silly unction of different kinds of preachers are "done to a hair."

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

I was remembering some of the fulsome flubdub I'd read about him.

A Woman Named Smith Marie Conway Oemler 1905

Any God's quantity of fuss and flubdub to bury a man, and not an ounce of forehandedness in the whole outfit to find out whether he was rightly dead.

Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900

She's lamed me up twice beating me -- an 'Perkins wanting me to say' God bless my mother! 'a-getting up and a-going to bed -- he's a flubdub!

Lin McLean Owen Wister 1899

Could we go along forever living on the flubdub of self-praise?

Under the Skylights Henry Blake Fuller 1893

"All the flubdub this Werder girl got off to-night puts me in mind of the way I talked that day.

Ramsey Milholland Booth Tarkington 1907