flapdoodle
Sep. 8th, 2021 07:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prettygoodwordflapdoodle (FLAP-dood-l) - n., nonsense, bosh.
Or even folderol, fiddlesticks, or fiddledeedee. I wanted to run this hoping to dive into a colorful etymology but, well, it turns out we're deep into "origin unknown" territory. It's yet another colorful 19th century American coinage -- though that said, its first use is by English writer Captain Frederick Marryat in Peter Simple (1832), with an unusual sense of low-quality food, which might throw that statement some shade if we didn't know Marryat's mother was from Boston.
---L.
Or even folderol, fiddlesticks, or fiddledeedee. I wanted to run this hoping to dive into a colorful etymology but, well, it turns out we're deep into "origin unknown" territory. It's yet another colorful 19th century American coinage -- though that said, its first use is by English writer Captain Frederick Marryat in Peter Simple (1832), with an unusual sense of low-quality food, which might throw that statement some shade if we didn't know Marryat's mother was from Boston.
---L.
