Tall Tale

Definition: Tall Tale

Tall Tale

Noun

1. An improbable (unusual or incredible or fanciful) story.

Modern Usage: Tall Tale

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Tall Tale Teller (1954)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Tall tale

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A tall tale is a story that claims to explain the reason for some natural phenomenon, or sometimes illustrates how skilled/intelligent/powerful the subject of the tale was. In either case, the tall tale is fictional, and usually obviously so. Very often, the tall tale is told in a manner that is intentionally ridiculous.

The tall tale is a fundamental element of American folk literature. The tall tale's origins are seen in the bragging contests that often occurred when the rough men of the American frontier gathered.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tall tale."

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Commercial Usage: Tall Tale

Domain	Title
Books	A Small Tall Tale from the Far Far North (reference) A Tall Tale from the Short Grass (reference) Cut from the Same Cloth: American Women of Myth, Legend and Tall Tale (reference) I Was Born About 10,000 Years Ago: A Tall Tale (reference) John Henry and His Mighty Hammer (A Troll First Start Tall Tale) (reference) (more book examples)

Music	A Tall Tale Storyline (reference) Tall Tale Storyline (+1 Bonus Track) [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tall Tale

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
tall tale	164
american tall tale	11
tall tale story	6
tall tale for child	5
tall tale movie	2
western tall tale	2
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Modern Translations: Tall Tale

Language		Translations for "tall tale"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Japanese Kanji		駄法螺 (big talk). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		� ぼら (big talk). (various references)

Pig Latin		alltay aletay.(various references)

Portuguese		mentira (bung, canard, caulker, Corker, crack, cracker, cram, crammer, do, fable, fairytale, falsely, haver, humbug, invention, leasing, lie, lying, mender, phoney, phony, taradiddle, untruth), lorota (fudge). (various references)

Spanish		relato exagerado, relato chino. (various references)

Swedish		skröna. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Tall Tale

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Arrhenatherum elatius, ascelpias exaltata, C.Presl, Festuca arundinacea Schreb., Melilotus altissimus Thuill., Ranunculus acer, Ranunculus acris, Sisymbrium altissimum L., Sisymbrium pannonicum Jacq.. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: Tall Tale

Misspellings
	"Tall Tale" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: talltale. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Tall Tale

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-l-l-l-t-t"
	-2 letters: atlatl.
	-3 letters: alate, latte.
	-4 letters: alae, lall, late, leal, tael, tala, tale, tall, tate, teal, teat, tela, tell.
	-5 letters: aal, ala, ale, all, alt, ate, att, eat, ell, eta, lat, lea, let, tae, tat, tea, tel, tet.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-l-l-l-t-t"
	+3 letters: tagliatelle.
	+4 letters: athletically, multilateral, tagliatelles.
	+5 letters: collaterality.
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