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flubdub

[ fluhb-duhb ]

noun

Slang.
  1. pretentious nonsense or show; airs.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of flubdub1

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90; origin uncertain
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Example Sentences

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But he can’t scare me out with flubdub about heart murmur, for I know the heart was murmuring, and the prospective Mrs. Tucker does, too.

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Some of it is plainly superfluous and some of it should be dismissed immediately as the merest flubdub and flapdoodle�inherited rubbish.

The standard Hollywood windmilling followed �and then the standard flubdub to the press.

His most famous specialty is baiting William Green: "Come, come, Mr. Green, will you stop handing us that flubdub?"

Rumpty-tumpty, pimplety-pan— The flubdub courted a catamaran But timplety-topplety, timpity-tare— The flubdub wedded the big blue bear!

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