flapdoodle
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of flapdoodle
First recorded in 1820–30; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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For many readers they’re makeweight puffery, eminently skippable, a lot of throat-clearing and flapdoodle.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2019
Most of what Douthat proposes here is either entirely incomprehensible flapdoodle or warmed-over analysis from 20 years ago.
From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2017
The catalogue essay, which needs an editor intolerant of art-school flapdoodle, doesn’t help much either, although it does contain some useful quotes from Noguchi, elaborating on his work.
From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2016
She blurs these borders in order to simultaneously honor and disparage art’s greatest article of faith-based flapdoodle: authenticity.
From Salon • Oct. 20, 2012
I say that it's all Aviculture, and Aviculture is flapdoodle!
From Chantecler Play in Four Acts by Rostand, Edmond
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