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- a clear-eyed assessment of the problem minus the usual flapdoodle
Synonyms for flapdoodle
- applesauce
- [slang],
- balderdash,
- baloney
- (also boloney),
- beans,
- bilge,
- blah
- (also blah-blah),
- blarney,
- blather,
- blatherskite,
- blither,
- bosh,
- bull
- [slang],
- bunk,
- bunkum
- (or buncombe),
- claptrap,
- codswallop
- [British],
- crapola
- [slang],
- crock,
- drivel,
- drool,
- fiddle,
- fiddle-faddle,
- fiddlesticks,
- flannel
- [British],
- folderol
- (also falderal),
- folly,
- foolishness,
- fudge,
- garbage,
- guff,
- hogwash,
- hokeypokey,
- hokum,
- hoodoo,
- hooey,
- horsefeathers
- [slang],
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- jazz,
- malarkey
- (also malarky),
- moonshine,
- muck,
- nerts
- [slang],
- nonsense,
- nuts,
- piffle,
- poppycock,
- punk,
- rot,
- rubbish,
- senselessness,
- silliness,
- slush,
- stupidity,
- taradiddle
- (or tarradiddle),
- tommyrot,
- tosh,
- trash,
- trumpery,
- twaddle
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“Flapdoodle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flapdoodle. Accessed 5 Aug. 2020.
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The first known use of flapdoodle was in 1878
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