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Nov 16, 2018

This week’s theme
Ridiculous words

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metagrobolize
quaquaversal
whigmaleerie
bamboozle
flapdoodle

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Next week’s theme
Words from music

A.Word.A.Day

with Anu Garg

flapdoodle

PRONUNCIATION:

(FLAP-doo-duhl)

MEANING:

noun: Nonsense.

ETYMOLOGY:

Of unknown origin. Earliest documented use: 1834.

USAGE:

“[An] overuse of technique does not represent expertise and boldness, but an escape into flummery and flapdoodle.”
Harlan Ellison; Harlan Ellison’s Watching; Open Road Media; 2015.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place. -Chinua Achebe, writer and professor (16 Nov 1930-2013)

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