- a variation of taradiddle.
tarradiddle
Americannoun
noun
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a trifling lie
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nonsense; twaddle
Etymology
Origin of tarradiddle
of unknown origin
Example Sentences
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Last week Martin followed up his telephone call to Straight with a signed rebuttal in the New Statesman and a 1900-word cable to the New Republic denouncing Strout's "tarradiddle."
From Time Magazine Archive
The King Liveth is Author Farnol's 28th novel, a tumultuous tarradiddle laid in 9th-Century England.
From Time Magazine Archive
A tarradiddle is what you say when you are, so to speak, took by surprise.
From Girls of the Forest by L. T. Meade
I can’t quite explain, miss; I suppose there’s scarcely any one who hasn’t been guilty of a tarradiddle; but a lie—a thought-out lie—never.”
From Girls of the Forest by L. T. Meade
And having uttered this shocking tarradiddle, she ushered him into the drawing-room.
From The Red Derelict by Bertram Mitford
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