flap-doodle

plural flap-doodles

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of flapdoodle.

   It is all impossible flap-doodle.

   2013, Eve Golden, John Gilbert: The Last of the Silent Film Stars, page 149

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   On inquiry what the little brass seal was, the prophetess said, " Oh, it's only a flap-doodle of Olcott's."

   1894, John Murdoch, The Theosophic Craze

   He had buttonhole bouquets and all the flap-doodles that belong to a swell feed, and had his colored man grinding out music with a phonograph until the talkin' time came.

   1907, American Thresherman - Volume 10, page 46

   He still feeds fools on flap-doodle, and many of them have large and flourishing families, who will perpetuate the breed to the remotest generation.

   1913, Augustus Samuel Harris, The Codling Math Manual, page 39

   Being a dramatic critic taught him all the stock situations, and all the sentimental flap-doodle of the theatre of 1870- 1900 roused every intellectual needle in him to action.

   1983, John Masefield, Audrey Napier-Smith, William Buchan, Letters to Reyna, page 78

   She's got lots of sense, horse sense and flap-doodle sense all mixed up. She's got more flap-doodle sense than I have; she reads books, and not long ago she give me a piece of poetry that she'd cut out of a newspaper.

   2019, Opie Percival Read, A Yankee from the West

2. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of flap doodle.

   I fixed up a few feathers and flap-doodles and made the cutest and most stylish looking bug you ever saw.

   1912, Field & Stream - Volume 17, page 899

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   On a trip to Alaska a few years ago, I discovered flap-doodles. These are small orange or hot-pink spinner blades attached to a fly at the bend of the hook with a small barrel swivel.

   2012, John Gierach, No Shortage of Good Days, page 134

present singular third person flap-doodles · participle present flap-doodling · participle past flap-doodled · past flap-doodled

1. alternativeAlternative form of flapdoodle.

   He was told he was flap-doodling by my brother-in-law.

   1953, Baroness Mary Irene Curzon Ravensdale, In Many Rhythms: An Autobiography, page 142

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   I suppose that men with stars on their breasts, men who have won the Military Cross, the Distinguished Service Order, and other distinctions have to “flap-doodle” to a man like that, and I hope the Govemment will take action in regard to the statements of this fictitious General, because, after all he is not a General in the true sense of the word, and bring him to book.

   1918, Australia. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates: Senate and House of Representatives, page 8275

   They're not in business for their health, to be flap-doodled by phony paps or padded sterns

   1932, James Murray, Coloured, page 219