flubadub

[Jonathan Lighter]

HDAS has a 1975 and a 1978 for "flubadub," a "flubdub" variant infl. by the puppet "The Flubadub" on TV's _Howdy Doody Show_ who, in turn, was inspired by the "Flubdub," character created by Eugene Field.

  1999  http://groups.google.com/group/nyc.transit/msg/736729fcc948dbcd (June 12) : The car steward...was a flubadub from the word go. He yelled at us, but in all Russian, which we did not understand.

  JL


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