Flapdoodle

"Flapdoodle, " he practically sang, as they made their way to the covered side entrance of the nearby infirmary.

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

"Flapdoodle, " he practically sang, as they made their way to the covered side entrance of the nearby infirmary.

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

In a review of A.R. Ammons's Bosh and Flapdoodle, for example, Danielle Chapman devotes one paragraph to free-floating generalizations about Ammons's career, one paragraph to equally airy generalizations about his poetry (which includes one quotation, but unfortunately it is from a poem not in the collection under review), and a final paragraph in which she pronounces that:

Book Reviewing 2010

This judgment -- about Bosh and Flapdoodle and about Ammons's late work in general -- may be entirely correct, but we have only Danielle Chapman's unsupported assertions to vouch for it, and I, for one, am certainly not going to take such assertions as evidence.

Book Reviewing 2010

Hey, what ever happened with the super heroine costumes we were talking about back when Kristine dubbed us “Anti-Flapdoodle Superheroes”?

Jersey Girls « UDreamOfJanie 2006

His notebook Number 19, now, among those preserved shows him snatching idea fragments out of the air and pinning them like butterflies in amber: he thought of licorice drops and pincushions;16 the superiority of 29th Street hotels above all others in New York; and “Whoopjamboreehoo” and “Blatherskite” and “Flapdoodle High-daddy.”

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

His notebook Number 19, now, among those preserved shows him snatching idea fragments out of the air and pinning them like butterflies in amber: he thought of licorice drops and pincushions;16 the superiority of 29th Street hotels above all others in New York; and “Whoopjamboreehoo” and “Blatherskite” and “Flapdoodle High-daddy.”

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

Farinaceous and Freezone and Flapdoodle and Foghorn.

Babbit 2004

[Footnote: Flapdoodle is the food on which fools are supposed to be fed.] grows wild; and if you want to know what that is, you must read

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 Charles Herbert Sylvester

Flivver, they suggested, and Frog-face and Flathead and Farinaceous and Freezone and Flapdoodle and Foghorn.

Chapter 34 1922