0 an idea, something said or written, or behaviourthat is silly or stupid: --
I have no time for all that flapdoodle.
That kind of flapdoodle has been talked about during the last 100 years.
All this talk about the heavy expense being required is simply flapdoodle—to put it very mildly.
That question was a series of abstract, categorical, doctrinaire allegations, without the slightest element of substance, and might perhaps fairly be described as flapdoodle.
There is no use whatever in putting enormous and dangerous machinery into operation for the purpose of preventing a piece of pompous flapdoodle.
Let us forget the paper flapdoodle and get down to the facts.
That is the issue, and everything else is flapdoodle.
And then we hear the silly flapdoodle that is talked in the country!
