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Definition: Taradiddle |
TaradiddleNoun1. A trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?". 2. Pretentious or silly talk or writing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "taradiddle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1866. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | TARADIDDLE. A fib, or falsity. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: TaradiddleSynonyms: baloney (n), bilgewater (n), boloney (n), bosh (n), drool (n), fib (n), humbug (n), story (n), tale (n), tarradiddle (n), tommyrot (n), tosh (n), twaddle (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Untruth | Noun: untruth, falsehood, lie, story, thing that is not, fib, bounce, crammer, taradiddle, whopper; jhuth. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| 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 |
taradiddle | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "taradiddle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | llafe (blah, claptrap, comment, gab, hassle, jaw, scuttlebutt, tattle, tittle tattle, waffle), gjepura (apple sauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blether, boloney, bosh, bunco, buncombe, bunk, bunko, claptrap, crap, drivel, drool, eyewash, fiddledeedee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flam, flannel, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, galimatias, gammon, hog-wash, hokum, humbug, jazz, jiggery pokery, moonshine, nonsense, palaver, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, stuff and nonsense, tosh, trash, twaddle, vacuity, waffle, wish-wash), gënjeshtër (circumvention, deceit, deceitfulness, double dealing, fable, fib, flam, fudge, leasing, lie, lurk, mendacity, oner, prevarication, sklent, twister, untruth). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | извъртане (chicane, dodge, dodgery, equivocation, evasion, indirection, jugglery, legerdemain, quibble, salvo, shuffle, tergiversation, torsion, twist), измислица (concoction, excogitation, fable, fabrication, fairy tale, fake, fib, fiction, figment, flam, hoax, invention, make believe, make up, myth, nonentity, tale, tall story), дребна лъжа (fib, story). (various references) | |
French | goudronner (tar). (various references) | |
Hungarian | füllentés (fib, story, white lie). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aradiddletay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | peta, mentira (bung, canard, caulker, corker, crack, cracker, cram, crammer, do, fable, fairytale, falsehood, have-on, humbug, invention, leasing, lie, lying, mendacity, phoney, phony, tall tale, untruth). (various references) | |
Russian | ложь (cracker, crammer, fabrication, falsehood, fib, leasing, lie, lying, mendacity, terminological inexactitudes, untruth). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | lažov (liar), laž (crammer, falsehood, flam, lie, sham, story, tale, untruth). (various references) | |
Swedish | smålögn, nonsens (bosh, bunk, bunkum, fandangle, gaff, hogwash, humbug, moonshine, poppycock, tosh). (various references) | |
Turkish | yalan (deceit, fabrication, falsehood, falseness, fib, flam, gammon, hollow, invention, lie, made up, mendacious, plumper, prevarication, quack, sham, shave, tale, tarradiddle, tell a lie, telltale, untrue, untruth, untruthful), aptal numarası yapma (tarradiddle). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nói láo (tarradiddle, untruthfull), nói điêu (tarradiddle). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "taradiddle": taradiddles. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-d-e-i-l-r-t" | |
-2 letters: lariated, radiated. | |
-3 letters: airdate, alidade, dartled, diddler, dilated, dilater, laterad, raddled, radiale, radiate, redtail, riddled, tiaraed, tiddler, trailed. | |
-4 letters: addled, aerial, airted, alated, alidad, ariled, atrial, daddle, daedal, darted, dartle, derail, detail, dialed, dialer, diddle, dilate, dirled, dreidl, ladder, laddie, laired, larded, lariat, latria, lidded, radded, raddle, radial, raided, railed, realia, redial, relaid. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-d-d-e-i-l-r-t" | |
+1 letter: taradiddles, tarradiddle. | |
+2 letters: tarradiddles. | |
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