“Flapdoodle” (FLAP-dood’l) is nonsense. Though of uncertain origin, the word is usually considered to be an American invention.
Example (as used by Betty Fussell in The New York Times): “Behind the tourist flap-doodle, authentic [Key West] cooking is produced by the descendants of Bahamian English and Cubans, who migrated to this coral reef over a century ago.”
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