flapdoodle

flapdoodle (countable and uncountable, plural flapdoodles)

1. (uncountable) nonsense
   • 2007, The Times :

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

   • 1832-3, Metropolitan Magazine :

     ‘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.’

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

• flap-doodle, doodleflap, flipdoodle

• see Thesaurus:nonsense

• fadoodle