flumadiddle

This morning I was stumped with one of the word puzzles I do on my phone every day. When I finally had to give up and ask Ron if he’d solved it, he admitted he had guessed it.  The word consisted of four different groups of letters that made up an 11-letter word, with the clue: utter nonsense. The answer was flumadiddle.
 
  I never did find anything close to the word flumadiddle in my old-fashioned dictionary. So, I Googled it. I found it with several variants: flumaddidle, flumdiddle, flummerdiddle, flummydiddle, and fumaddidle. Wow! Who knew?

   My source of information considers flumadiddle a noun with slightly varied meanings, such as utter nonsense, trash, foolish, worthless, bauble, and frill.

   Since I’m often obsessed with a word,  I thought I would share this one with others. So, I tried to make some voice notes on my phone. In doing so, I fully understood this word and its meaning.

   When I dictated the word flumadiddle, my phone translated it as dental flow model. I tried again. The second translation was phlegm and dental. And trying one more time, my cellphone heard Darrel and something, before it quickly erased that translation to phlegm and ditto. Now that is utter nonsense.

   However, I think maybe it is the perfect word to describe how I feel about so many things happening in our world today. Information, whether correct or not, is instantly at my fingertips. Opinions are abundant on mainstream media or social media, and facts are often overlooked. How is anyone to know for sure what is true and what is bogus? Maybe it is all just flumadiddle.​  

 I’ve been utterly nonsensical to share this worthless frill today. Yet, I’ve had fun writing about a new word I found. I like it, and since I never found the right title for this painting I did some time ago, I think I’ll name it Flumadiddle.      



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