subs. (colloquial).—1. Transparent nonsense; “kid.” Also FLAMDOODLE and FLAM-SAUCE, or FLAP-SAUCE. For synonyms, see GAMMON.
1833. MARRYAT, Peter Simple, II. ix. ‘It’s my opinion, Peter, that the gentleman has eaten no small quantity of FLAPDOODLE in his lifetime.’ ‘What’s that, O’Brien?’ replied I; ‘I never heard of it.’ ‘Why, Peter,’ rejoined he, ‘it’s the stuff they feed fools on.’
1861. T. HUGHES, Tom Brown at Oxford. I shall talk to our regimental doctors about it, and get put through a course of fools’ diet—FLAPDOODLE they call it, what fools are fed on.
1884. S. L. CLEMENS (‘Mark Twain’), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, xxv. A speech, all full of tears and FLAPDOODLE about its being a sore trial for him and his poor brother to lose the diseased [deceased].
2. (venery).—The penis. (Urquhart). For synonyms, see CREAMSTICK and PRICK.
TO TALK FLAPDOODLE, verb. phr. (American).—To brag; to talk nonsense.
1888. Chicago Daily Inter Ocean, 2 March. Possibly rich men will turn from sharp dealing, from debauchery, from FLAPDOODLE fashion to a common-sense recognition of a situation, which clearly shows that wealth is no longer what it used to be—autocratic, absolute, the ruler of all else.
