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. http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0611B&L=ADS-L&P=R3634 --Ben Zimmer ------------------------------------------------------------ The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org