flubdub

A buffoon.

I told Mr. Perkins I wasn't a-going to, an' he— I think he is a flubdub anyway."

Rumpty-tumpty, pimplety-pan— / The flubdub courted a catamaran / But timplety-topplety, timpity-tare— / The flubdub wedded the big blue bear!

Trivial matters; nonsense.

I have no mission or message or any flubdub of that kind.

Only they sent the father to the Senate and gave him columns of flubdub and laid him out in state when he died—and they poured kerosene upon the son and burned him alive.