To Flap a Jay, verb. phr. (thieves’).—To swindle a greenhorn; to sell a
pup (q.v.).
1885. Daily Telegraph, Aug. 18th, p. 3., col. 1. He and three
others of the ‘division’ had ‘cut up’ £70 between them, obtained by
flapping a jay, which, rendered into intelligible English, means
plundering a simple-minded person.
To Flap the Dimmock, verb. phr. (common).—To pay. [From Flap, a verb of
motion + Dimmock = money]. Cf., Flap.
Flapdoodle, subs. (colloquial).—1. Transparent nonsense; “kid.”
Also Flamdoodle and Flam-sauce, or Flap-sauce. For synonyms, see
Gammon.
1833. Marryat, Peter Simple, ch. xxviii. ‘It’s my opinion, Peter,
that the gentleman has eaten no small quantity of flapdoodle in his
lifetime.’ ‘What’s that, O’Brien,’ replied I. ‘Why, Peter, it’s the
stuff they feed fools on.’
1861. Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford. I shall talk to our regimental
doctors about it, and get put through a course of fools’
diet—flapdoodle they call it, what fools are fed on.
1884. S. L. Clemens (‘Mark Twain’), Huck. Finn, xxv., 247. A
speech, all full of tears and flapdoodle about its being a sore
trial for him and his poor brother to lose the diseased [deceased].
2. (venery).—The penis. (Urquhart). For synonyms, see Creamstick and
Prick.
To talk Flapdoodle, verb. phr. (American).—To brag; to talk nonsense.
1888. Daily Inter-Ocean, Mar. 2. Possibly rich men will turn from
sharp dealing, from debauchery, from flapdoodle fashion to a
common-sense recognition of a situation, which clearly shows that
wealth is no longer what it used to be—autocratic, absolute, the
ruler of all else.
Flapdoodler, subs. (American).—A braggart agitator; one that makes the
eagle squeal (q.v.).
Flap-dragon, subs. (old).—The pox or clap (q.v.). For synonyms, see
Ladies’ Fever.
1690. B. E., New Dict. of the Canting Crew, s.v. Flapdragon, a clap
or pox.
Verb. (old).—To gulp down hastily, as in the game of flap-dragon.
1604. Shakspeare, Winter’s Tale, Act III., Sc. 3. But, to make an
end of the ship: to see how the sea flap-dragoned it!
Flapman, subs. (prison).—A convict promoted for good behaviour to first
or second class.
Flapper, subs. (common).—1. The hand; also flapper-shaker. For
synonyms, see Daddle and Mauley.
1833. Marryat, Peter Simple, ch. vii. My Dear Mr. Simple, extend
your flapper to me for I’m delighted to see you.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, or Rogues’ Lexicon, s.v.
1866. London Miscellany, May 19, p. 235. ‘There’s my flapper on the
strength of it.’ Guy shook hands with the eccentric stranger
heartily.