The Wonderful World Of Words, 3/11/17
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
--Robert Frost
Edward Lear
DEFINITION:
Adjective
Something silly or foolish.
SYNONYMS:
Nonsense
Absurdity
ETYMOLOGY/ORIGIN:
The best information we could find on this word is that it first appeared in the 1660s in Douglas Harper’s Etymology Dictionary. Most likely, it was created in someone's imagination. Opium may have been involved (just teasing).
PRONUNCIATION:
[fah-doo-dull]
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SCRABBLE SCORE:
13, but it is not considered an official Scrabble word. Poppycock!
USAGE/EXAMPLES:
“You must be drunk! You're talking mere FADOODLE! No one's taking you seriously.”
--Words You Should Know to Sound Smart
by Robert Bly, 2016
"One finds, too, a few odd forms such as polwiggle (modern pollywog) surviving from Middle English, and the quaint cat- erquibble and cattystaple, hopshackle and quibble, bubukle, FADOODLE, and jargogle formed in Early Modern English; usually freakish creations by individual writers, which do not establish themselves in the language."
--Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Review, 1935
Edward Lear
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