Tuesday, 23 September 2014

Flapdoodle

Word of the Day for Tuesday 23rd September 2014


Flapdoodle \FLAP-dood-l\
Noun
1. Informal. Nonsense; bosh.
Quotes
Well, by-and-by the king he gets up and comes forward a little, and works himself up and slobbers out a speech, all full of tears and flapdoodle about its being a sore trial for him and his poor brother…
-- Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884
Origin
Flapdoodle came to English in the 1800’s and is of uncertain origin.

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