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Subject: flumadiddle: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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Jul. 11, 2015

flumadiddle \fluhm-uh-DID-l\ noun 1. utter nonsense. 2. worthless frills. Quotes 'This flumadiddle's got'a stop: ain havin it no more.' Throwing himself on his bunk, Zachary closed his eyes, and for the first time in many months, his vision turned inwards, travelling back across the oceans to his last day at Gardiner's shipyard in Baltimore. -- Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, 2008 Origin Flumadiddle is an Americanism that arose in the 1840s as a combination of flummery, meaning "complete nonsense," and diddle, meaning "to fool with."

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