flubdub

noun

1. (countable)A buffoon.

   “I told Mr. Perkins I wasn't a-going to, an' he— I think he is a flubdub anyway."”

   “Rumpty-tumpty, pimplety-pan— / The flubdub courted a catamaran / But timplety-topplety, timpity-tare— / The flubdub wedded the big blue bear!”

2. (uncountable)Trivial matters; nonsense.

   “I have no mission or message or any flubdub of that kind.”

   “Only they sent the father to the Senate and gave him columns of flubdub and laid him out in state when he died—and they poured kerosene upon the son and burned him alive.”

   “Sorrow came to her afterward, disappointment, struggle, but never so heavy and dragging a pain as she knew that Christmas Day. She had been trying in many unsuspected ways to relieve her father's grim misery, — a misery of which his gaunt face told the tale, — and although he had said that he wished for "no flubdub about Christmas," she really could not resist making some recognition of a day which found all other homes happy.”