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Pretentious or silly talk or writing
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tarradiddle
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Word definitions for tarradiddle in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 A trivial lie. 2 Silly talk or writing; humbug. n. 1 A trivial lie. 2 Silly talk or writing; humbug.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?" [syn: fib , story , tale , taradiddle ] pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney , boloney , bilgewater , bosh , drool , humbug , taradiddle ...
Usage examples of tarradiddle.
You see, by now we were sure we had a case of conspiracy on our hands and I felt that, interviewed separately, they would have time to concoct some kind of consistent tarradiddle whereas, if we caught them all together and on the hop, they would have to improvise and in doing so might give themselves away.
Far-fetched, but I understand the tallest, the most preposterous tarradiddle will be gulped down whole by your public.
Florence to tell a tarradiddle for her, their meeting, although it does not save her from coming definitely under suspicion, gives her a very short time in which to get downstairs, take the dagger from the wall, drive it home, and return.
But I thought she would have disapproved a mesalliance with a tinker even more than my tarradiddles, and so I persevered.
She did not accuse Jem of spinning tarradiddles, merely of allowing himself to be gulled by an unconscionable humbugger.
There was I telling tarradiddles by the yard to that old oaf Sir Orlando Drought, when a confidential word from Plantagenet would have had ten times more effect.
Somehow, lying to Claire was different from telling wild tarradiddles to their lordships.
Set ten thousand children talking at once, and telling tarradiddles about what they did in the wood, and it will not be hard to find parallels suggesting sun-worship or animal worship.
I ought to have gone to the shop but Mummy rang up and told Gregory some tarradiddles about me, so I thought I might as well stay at home.
I a swallower of tarradiddles and a child, to believe that you are so fashioned that a page can behave in this manner and you not know it?
There was I telling tarradiddles by the yard to that old oaf Sir Orlando Drought, when a confidential word from Plantagenet would have had ten times more effect.