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Every morning I like to stretch and blurt out a random word. Today it was: Flumadiddle.
Could you please enhance the world's vocabulary by adding the proper meaning of flumadiddle?
I'm freethinking up a use... I only like the apples with a flumadiddle or two.
Flumadiddle means ridiculous nonsense.
I won't hear of it! That's flumadiddle!
Well, that's 'cause you came here in the middle of the conversation all catawampus actin' all ill-willie; if we start from the beginning, only then you can see that this response is just taradiddle. Soon, you will notice that I am using these highfalutin words to just Hornswoggle ya. Now, excuse me while I absquatulate.
And I am even anaspeptic to have caused you such contrafibularities.
Ahhh taradiddle. Not flumadiddle. My mistake.
I wrote that response courtesy of this neat article I found: https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/flummadiddle-bodacious-19th-century-americanisms