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tara vine |
tarabulus |
tarabulus al-gharb |
tarabulus ash-sham |
taracahitian |
taradiddle
| tarahumara
| tarahumara frog
| taraktagenos
| taraktagenos kurzii
| taraktogenos
taradiddle
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun taradiddle has 2 senses
- taradiddle(n = noun.communication) fib, story, tale, tarradiddle - a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?" is a kind of lie, prevarication
- taradiddle(n = noun.communication) baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle - pretentious or silly talk or writing; Array is a kind of bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality
has particulars: cock-and-bull story, fairy story, fairy tale, fairytale, song and dance
OXFORD DICTIONARY
taradiddle, n. (also tarradiddle) colloq.
1 a petty lie.
2 pretentious nonsense.
1 a petty lie.
2 pretentious nonsense.
Etymology
18th c.: cf. DIDDLE
ROGET THESAURUS
taradiddle
Untruth
N untruth, falsehood, lie, story, thing that is not, fib, bounce, crammer, taradiddle, whopper, jhuth, forgery, fabrication, invention, misstatement, misrepresentation, perversion, falsification, gloss, suggestio falsi, exaggeration, invention, fabrication, fiction, fable, nursery tale, romance, absurd story, untrue story, false story, trumped up story, trumped up statement, thing devised by the enemy, canard, shave, sell, hum, traveler's tale, Canterbury tale, cock and bull story, fairy tale, fake, claptrap, press agent's yarn, puff, puffery (exaggeration), myth, moonshine, bosh, all my eye and Betty Martin, mare's nest, farce, irony, half truth, white lie, pious fraud, mental reservation, pretense, pretext, false plea, subterfuge, evasion, shift, shuffle, make-believe, sham, profession, empty words, Judas kiss, disguise, untrue, false, phony, trumped up, void of foundation, without- foundation, fictive, far from the truth, false as dicer's oaths, unfounded, ben trovato, invented, fabulous, fabricated, forged, fictitious, factitious, supposititious, surreptitious, elusory, illusory, ironical, soi-disant, se non e vero e ben trovato, where none is meant that meets the ear.
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