# Flummery, etc. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 4, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flummery-etc/479844 "2009-01-04T20:16:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flummery-etc/479844/21 "2009-01-05T01:52:18Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#): > > As an aside, did you ever wonder why there are so many such slang words? Because people tend to blather when they’re being blithering idiots? My 4th grade teacher used to say “horsefeathers!” ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flummery-etc/479844/22 "2009-01-05T02:00:28Z")
frippery ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flummery-etc/479844/23 "2009-01-05T02:30:38Z")
> [@gwendee](#): > > frippery Ah yes, good ole frippery. No doubt derived from the famous “Wizard of Id” incantation, “Frammin’ on the jim-jam, **frippin** at the krotz.” But what I always wondered, was whose jim-jam was being frammed, and whose krotz was being fripped? I guess we’ll never know. ---
**Author:** ![laughingboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@laughingboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/laughingboy)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flummery-etc/479844/24 "2009-01-05T02:42:44Z")
Moonshine! ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flummery-etc/479844/25 "2009-01-05T02:56:06Z")
Applesauce. Eyewash. Banana oil. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flummery-etc/479844/26 "2009-01-05T03:31:54Z")
Taradiddle, which I believe I first heard in a WC Fields movie. ---
**Author:** ![bartleby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bartleby/32/10491_2.png) [@bartleby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bartleby)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flummery-etc/479844/27 "2009-01-05T17:57:44Z")
Jiggery-Pokery? ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flummery-etc/479844/28 "2009-01-05T18:29:33Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#): > > while I had “horse hockey”, why did I never come up with “horseshit?” We also said horsepiss. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flummery-etc/479844/29 "2009-01-05T18:30:56Z")
Bushwa. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flummery-etc/479844/30 "2009-01-05T21:28:02Z")
You all have gotten all but two of what I had already, and more. How about humbug, guff and bullroar for a total of more than 40. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flummery-etc/479844/31 "2009-01-05T21:36:41Z")
Well as we all just learned today, add hoobedoo to that list. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flummery-etc/479844/32 "2009-01-06T00:03:53Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > Well as we all just learned today, add > > hoobedoo > > to that list. Well, I’ve heard hoodoo, but not yours. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flummery-etc/479844/33 "2009-01-06T15:46:04Z")
Poppycock. If it’s good enough for Sideshow Bob, it’s good enough for me. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flummery-etc/479844/34 "2009-01-06T15:48:50Z")
> [@bartleby](#): > > Jiggery-Pokery? Thought J-P was machinations, finagling, double-dealing - not just talk. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flummery-etc/479844.md?page=1)