flapdoodler

Why this word is great

FLAPDOODLER — [Noun] A speaker or writer of nonsense. From flapdoodle (nonsense, empty talk) + -er (agent noun suffix). Unlike "blatherskite" (which drowns sense in volume) or "mountebank" (who trades in deception), a flapdoodler deals in the pure currency of the absurd, unburdened by intention or coherence. It is the bureaucrat reciting regulations in a language no one understands, the poet whose verses dissolve into gibberish by the third line, or the old man on the park bench muttering prophecies about the moon being made of cheese—a reminder that meaning, like warmth, leaks slowly from the world, leaving only the comfort of sound.