flapdoodle

noun

1. (uncountable)Nonsense.

   “‘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.”

2. (countable)Thingamabob.

   “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.”

3. (countable)A speaker or writer of nonsense.

   “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.”

verb

1. To con; to deceive with nonsense.

   “Now, however the innocents may be flapdoodled by such jugglery the guilties remain undeceived.”

   “Whilst acknowledging the accolade and honour, I wasn't happy and 'flapdoodled' to try and get out of it.”

   “This Vok, or Cole, undoubtedly flapdoodled the witnesses into thinking he was skinny then flipped open his false hump and let the demoniacal pixie out to do its fell business.”