2. Noun. Speakers and writers of nonsense. ¹
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Definition of Flapdoodle
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flapdoodle
Literary usage of Flapdoodle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"flapdoodle. According to Dean Swift,— 'Tis an old maxim of the schools, ...
"The gentleman has eaten no small quantity of flapdoodle in his lifetime. ..."
2. The Writings of Bret Harte by Bret Harte (1896)
"Ye know that boy, gentlemen; ye know how he uster lie round his father's store,
reading flapdoodle stories and sich! Ye remember how I uster try to give him ..."
3. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"flapdoodle. Empty talk. Marryat (1833) has " to feed fools on flapdoodle.'
NED 1862 [McMahon utters] ... 1884 A speech all full of tears and flapdoodle. ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1892)
"Ye know that boy, gentlemen; ye know how he uster lie round his father's store,
reading flapdoodle stories and sich? Ye remember how I uster try to give him ..."
5. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"It's my opinion, Peter, that the gentleman has eaten no small quantity of flapdoodle
in his lifetime." " What's that, O'Brien Ч " replied I ; "I never heard ..."
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