FLAPDOODLE
\flˈapduːdə͡l], \flˈapduːdəl], \f_l_ˈa_p_d_uː_d_əl]\
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Nourishment or food for fools. "The gentleman has eaten no small quantity of flapdoodle in his lifetime. What's that? It's the stuff they feed fools on."-Marryat. "I shall talk to our regimental doctors about it, and get put through a course of fool's-diet before we start for India." Flapdoodle they call it, what fools are fed on."-T. Hughes.
By Daniel Lyons
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