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Date: 2014-09-15 2:05 GMT-05:00
Subject: flapdoodle: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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Sep. 15, 2014
Word of the Day

flapdoodle Audio Pronunciation
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\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 1800s and is of uncertain origin.
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