| 释义 |
flubdub Chiefly U.S.|ˈflʌbdʌb|
[Fanciful.]
Bombastic or inept language.
1888Detroit Free Press Aug. (Farmer), By swiping out the flub-dub and guff, I guess we'll have room to put in the points. 1902Kipling Traffics & Discov. (1904) 16 Any God's quantity of fuss and flubdub to bury a man. 1904Rochester Post-Express 13 July 4 There is an immense amount of flubdub and nonsense and gush in this sort of talk. 1908Herald (Buenos Aires) in Daily Chron. 30 June 4/7 All the oratory and political flub-dub that was ever mouthed or printed. 1928Daily Express 6 Aug. 8/7 Psychic research..whether mere ‘flub-dub’—like some fortune-telling [etc.]. 1952Daily Mirror (N.Y.) 8 July 11/4 Maybe Mike Todd or Berle should take over the management of the conventions... They would remove much of the amateur flub-dub. |