flap-doodle

Noun

flapdoodle (countable and uncountable, plural flapdoodles)

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.’1834 [1832], Frederick Marryat, chapter 28, in Peter Simple

   Synonyms:

   absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, apple grease, applesauce, bafflegab, balderdash, balls, baloney, banana oil

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.1929, Lisgar Collegiate Institute, Vox Lycei 1928-1929, page 43
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.”1893, Annie Besant, Annie Besant: An Autobiography, page 363

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Noun

flap doodle (countable and uncountable, plural flap doodles)

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