Flubdub
[fluhb-duhb] /ˈflʌbˌdʌb/
noun
1.
pretentious nonsense or show; airs.
noun
verb
: I flubdubbed the stage entrance
[1920s+; first sense found by 1888 in the sense ”foolishness, bunk, hot air”]
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