This word is so new-fangled that it hasn't yet been accepted as part of the language—which makes it not a neologism but a protologism.

This news group certainly seemed to filled with a lot of R/Hr people. As I am a H/Hr person and I believe that Hermione and Harry have this subtle thing that's being built up since the very beginning, I will elaborate on my personal beliefs.

‘The gentleman has eaten no small quantity of flapdoodle in his lifetime.’ ‘What’s that, O’Brien?’ replied I. ‘Why, Peter,’ rejoined he, ‘it’s the stuff they feed fools on.’

But what was the social rank of these burgesses? Were they thegns—twelfhyndmen?