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Meaning of Flapdoodle | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
ˈflæpˌduːdl̩

Definitions

  1. Nonsense.
  2. Thingamabob.
  3. A speaker or writer of nonsense.

Equivalents

العربية الهراء

Examples

“‘The gentleman has eaten no small quantity of flapdoodle in his lifetime.’ ‘What’s that, O’Brien?’ replied I. ‘Why, Peter,’ rejoined he, ‘it’s the stuff they feed fools on.’”
“Fiddlesticks and flapdoodle”
“Why, with my sternest critic's pencil in my hand, its lead as black as my heart, did I not write the word “flapdoodle” in the margin at that point?”
“It is not worth falling into dispute over such a flapdoodle of a vestimentary matter.”
“Then there was the noble but unseen army of perspiring heroes who wrestled with furniture and wings and other flapdoodles behind the curtain.”
“What other playwright would dare populate his plays with space aliens, dancing plates and spoons, vampires, girl huns, mystic furballs and bodacious flapdoodles?”
“Suppose you invent a flapdoodle. The flapdoodle can be any color, but your "preferred" flapdoodle is colored red.”
“Here, So-and-so ”—to some one on whose countenance a faint gleam of comprehension was discernible—“ tell these flapdoodles of the ages what I mean.””
“As for the others, no one cares a brass farthing what Olcott and his "flapdoodles" may do or say.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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