Meaning of flap-doodle | Babel Free

Examples

“On inquiry what the little brass seal was, the prophetess said, " Oh, it's only a flap-doodle of Olcott's."”

“He had buttonhole bouquets and all the flap-doodles that belong to a swell feed, and had his colored man grinding out music with a phonograph until the talkin' time came.”

“He still feeds fools on flap-doodle, and many of them have large and flourishing families, who will perpetuate the breed to the remotest generation.”

“Being a dramatic critic taught him all the stock situations, and all the sentimental flap-doodle of the theatre of 1870- 1900 roused every intellectual needle in him to action.”

“It is all impossible flap-doodle.”

“She's got lots of sense, horse sense and flap-doodle sense all mixed up. She's got more flap-doodle sense than I have; she reads books, and not long ago she give me a piece of poetry that she'd cut out of a newspaper.”

“I fixed up a few feathers and flap-doodles and made the cutest and most stylish looking bug you ever saw.”

“On a trip to Alaska a few years ago, I discovered flap-doodles. These are small orange or hot-pink spinner blades attached to a fly at the bend of the hook with a small barrel swivel.”

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