flamdoodle

plural flamdoodles

1. alternativeAlternative form of flapdoodle.

   Or was there really something in all this flamdoodle about looking for the lost sheilas that made sense?

   2013, Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock, page 81

   3 more examples

   Durned ef I don't like 'er better without a hat on than with all the fluffy flamdoodle that gals put on when they go out.

   1902, Will Nathaniel Harben, Abner Daniel: the "David Harum" of the South, page 82

   If he doesn't watch his lenses, M. Ray will allow the Dada theories and other flamdoodle of his section run him off his track.

   1965, Hart Crane, Letters, 1916-1932, page 52

   I'm crazy about Dr Tuby, but that doesn't mean I'm ready to believe in you and your Institute and this image flamdoodle — ' '

   1968, John Boynton Priestley, The Image Men, page 111

present singular third person flamdoodles · participle present flamdoodling · participle past flamdoodled · past flamdoodled

1. alternativeAlternative form of flapdoodle.

   It was good enough to flamdoodle Packer, but as a workable proposition it's simply not workable, Lady Sheba.

   1925, William Caine, Lady Sheba's Last Stunt, page 185

   2 more examples

   We graft on the state an overcharge it an' flamdoodle it, forgetting that we are the state, an buncoing ourselves.

   1916, McClure's Magazine - Volume 46, page 27

   He walked back , sore as a dog covered with ticks , knowing full well Sampson had been out just to flamdoodle him .

   1972, Moritz Adolph Jagendorf, Folk Stories of the South, page 18