Hooptedoodle
Elmore Leonard's Top Ten rules for writers which can be summed up with a quotation from John Steinbeck that he references: "I don't want hooptedoodle to get mixed up with the story."
Dictionary.com suggests "hepatitides" as possibly being the word I meant when I asked for a formal definition of "hooptedoodle." When you get right down to it, dictionary.com might be close.
Hepatitides: Inflammation of the liver, caused by infectious or toxic agents and characterized by jaundice, fever, liver enlargement, and abdominal pain.
Hooptedoodle: inflammation of the story, caused by infectious or toxic writing and characterized by severe anacoluthon, embolalian engorgement, uncontrollable circumlocution, and runaway annomination.
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