flubdub

Benjamin Zimmer bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Fri Apr 20 17:58:33 UTC 2007


On 4/20/07, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>   The more usual sense is "twaddle," app. from the 1870s.

Shortened to "flub" by the 1880s.

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