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flapdoodle

[flap-dood-l] / ˈflæpˌdud l /




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Poppycock with an average flapdoodle reading of +10 million fiddle faddles.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2022

Now, I remember some silly flapdoodle about vessels and chalices and secret societies, but not much else.

From Washington Post • May 1, 2019

For many readers they’re makeweight puffery, eminently skippable, a lot of throat-clearing and flapdoodle.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2019

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

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.

From Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front by Hales, A. G. (Alfred Greenwood)




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