Theos-Talk Archives (May 2006 Message tt00243)

>From the Oxford English Dictionary:

   1. (See quot. 1833.)
   1833 Marryat P. Simple (1863) 210 ‘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.’  1863
Kingsley Water-bab. vi. (1878) 266 Where flapdoodle grows wild.  

   2. a. Nonsense; ‘bosh’; humbug. Also as int.  b. A trifling thing, a
gewgaw.

   1878 Besant & Rice Celia's Arb. II. iii. 43 A bit of lace now, or any
other fal-lal and flap-doodle.  Ibid., III. vii. 101 ‘Fudge and flapdoodle!’
1884 Mark Twain Huck. Finn xxv, A speech, all full of tears and flapdoodle.
1891 B. Harte First Family Tasajara II. vii, Reading flapdoodle stories and
sich.  

   Hence flap-"doodle v. intr., to talk nonsense; to maunder. flap-"doodler
[-er1] (see quot.).

   1889 Barrère & Leland Slang, Flapdoodlers (journalistic), charlatan
namby-pamby political speakers.  1893 Westm. Gaz. 11 July 2/1 He flapdoodled
round the subject in the usual Archiepiscopal way.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com [mailto:theos-talk@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Cass Silva
> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 6:38 PM
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: Theos-World It's is May 8th
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> Love the word, but what does Flapdoodle mean?
> Happy Flapdoodle Day
> Cass
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> Drpsionic@aol.com wrote: and in the immoratal word of HPB as she looks out
> from wherever she is at  us:
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> FLAPDOODLE!!!
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> Happy White Lotus Day!
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> Chuck the Heretic
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