flapdoodle
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /ˈflæpˌduːdl̩/
美 /ˈflæpˌdud(ə)l/
英文释义
名词 n.
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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.’
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Thingamabob.
— Then there was the noble but unseen army of perspiring heroes who wrestled with furniture and wings and other flapdoodles behind the curtain.
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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.”
动词 v.
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To con; to deceive with nonsense.
— Now, however the innocents may be flapdoodled by such jugglery the guilties remain undeceived.
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