flapdoodle

1. (uncountable) Nonsense.Examples: "‘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.’"; "Fiddlesticks and flapdoodle"; "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?"Synonyms: absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, applesauce, bafflegab, balderdash, balls, baloney

2. (countable) Thingamabob.Examples: "Then there was the noble but unseen army of perspiring heroes who wrestled with furniture and wings and other flapdoodles behind the curtain."; "What other playwright would dare populate his plays with space aliens, dancing plates and spoons, vampires, girl huns, mystic furballs and bodacious flapdoodles?"; "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.Examples: "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.”"; "As for the others, no one cares a brass farthing what Olcott and his "flapdoodles" may do or say."