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名詞

flap doodle (countable and uncountable, plural flap doodles)

1. Alternative form of flapdoodle
   • 1886, Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Conclave of the Grand Commandery of Knights templar of Michigan, page 68:

     That the demoralization has reached such proportions that the " whole head is sick," per consequence of heroic doses of "flap doodle," and "the whole heart is faint," because of efforts to escape from obedience to "the weighty matters of the law — judgment, mercy, and faith."

   • 1914, American Machinist - Volume 40, page 203:

     Are you looking for a lathe loaded down with a lot of "jim-cracks" and "flap doodles," or do you want a husky, easily handled tool without a dngle useless feature?

   • 1916, Stone & Webster Journal - Volume 18, page 15:

     as to whether our English cousins are fully justified in appyling such opprobrious terms as “hocus pocus" and “flap doodle finance” to these various measures.

   • 1942, Louise Rosalie Preysz, Dear Teacher: The Hilarious Story of an Old Maid, page 86:

     And no wonder . . . dressed as she be an all them fancy flap doodles, curls and laces.

2. (fishing) A spinner blade attached to a fly at the bend of the hook.
   • 2006, American Angler: The Magazine of Fly Fishing and Fly Tying:

     What just about everybody does agree on is that a flap doodle will often increase your chances of hooking a king salmon. A flap doodle is nothing more than a small spinner blade attached to the rear of the fly, and it's nothing new.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈflæpˌduːdl̩/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈflæpˌdud(ə)l/

名詞

flapdoodle (countable and uncountable, plural flapdoodles)

1. (uncountable) Nonsense.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:nonsense

   • 1834 [1832], Frederick Marryat, chapter 28, in Peter Simple‎:

     ‘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.’

   • 1974, Bagpuss (TV series):

     Fiddlesticks and flapdoodle

   • 2006 October 7, Nicholas Lezard, “In bed with Tracey Emin”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     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?

   • 2007, The Times‎:

     It is not worth falling into dispute over such a flapdoodle of a vestimentary matter.

2. (countable) Thingamabob.
   • 1929, Lisgar Collegiate Institute, Vox Lycei 1928-1929, page 43:

     Then there was the noble but unseen army of perspiring heroes who wrestled with furniture and wings and other flapdoodles behind the curtain.

   • 1999, American Theatre - Volume 16, page 17:

     What other playwright would dare populate his plays with space aliens, dancing plates and spoons, vampires, girl huns, mystic furballs and bodacious flapdoodles?

   • 2008, Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society:

     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.
   • 1893, Annie Besant, Annie Besant: An Autobiography, page 363:

     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.”

   • 1895, St. Martin's-le-grand - Volume 5, page 102:

     As for the others, no one cares a brass farthing what Olcott and his "flapdoodles" may do or say.

派生語

動詞

flapdoodle (third-person singular simple present flapdoodles, present participle flapdoodling, simple past and past participle flapdoodled)

1. To con; to deceive with nonsense.
   • 1911, The Conservator - Volumes 22-24, page 28:

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

   • 1988, British Homing World - Volume 61, page 35:

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

   • 2014, Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy:

     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.

参考

• fadoodle

Further reading

• Michael Quinion (1996–2025) “Flapdoodle”, in World Wide Words.