taradiddletarradiddlen.

/ˌtarəˈdɪd(ə)l/main stress shifting

Forms: Also 1800s tarri-, tally-.

Etymology: compare diddle v.³ 2 and diddle n. 2: the first element is obscure: compare tara int.¹

slang or colloquial.

A trifling falsehood, a petty lie; a colloquial euphemism for a lie; a ‘fib’.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun] > a falsehood, lie > trivial

fib1611

story1648

flaw1725

fibbing1749

taradiddle1796

yed1808

1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Taradiddle, a fib, or falsity.

1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows III. xliv. 143 Telling a tarradiddle or two.

a1865 E. C. Gaskell Wives & Daughters (1866) II. xviii. 182 Oh, don't call them lies, sister; it's such a strong, ugly word. Please call them tallydiddles, for I don't believe she meant any harm.

1882 J. Payn Thicker than Water i Our widow paid..the compliment of telling a ‘tarradiddle’ or white lie.

1885 T. H. Huxley Let. 23 Feb. in L. Huxley Life & Lett. T. H. Huxley (1900) II. 97 Everybody told us it would be very cold, and, as usual, everybody told taradiddles.

Draft additions 1993

b. Pretentious or empty talk; senseless, unproductive activity; nonsense, = twaddle n. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun]

magged talea1387

moonshine1468

trumperyc1485

foolishness1531

trash1542

baggage1545

flim-flam1570

gear1570

rubbisha1576

fiddle-faddle1577

stuff1579

fible-fable1581

balductum1593

pill1608

nonsense1612

skimble-skamble1619

porridge1642

mataeology1656

fiddle-come-faddle1663

apple sauce1672

balderdash1674

flummery1749

slang1762

all my eye1763

diddle-daddle1778

(all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781

twaddle1782

blancmange1790

fudge1791

twiddle-twaddle1798

bothering1803

fee-faw-fum1811

slip-slop1811

nash-gab1816

flitter-tripe1822

effutiation1823

bladderdash1826

ráiméis1828

fiddlededee1843

pickles1846

rot1846

kelter1847

bosh1850

flummadiddle1850

poppycock1852

Barnum1856

fribble-frabble1859

kibosh1860

skittle1864

cod1866

Collyweston1867

punk1869

slush1869

stupidness1873

bilge-water1878

flapdoodle1878

tommyrot1880

ruck1882

piffle1884

flamdoodle1888

razzmatazz1888

balls1889

pop1890

narrischkeit1892

tosh1892

footle1894

tripe1895

crap1898

bunk1900

junk1906

quatsch1907

bilge1908

B.S.1912

bellywash1913

jazz1913

wash1913

bullshit?1915

kid-stakes1916

hokum1917

bollock1919

bullsh1919

bushwa1920

noise1920

bish-bosh1922

malarkey1923

posh1923

hooey1924

shit1924

heifer dust1927

madam1927

baloney1928

horse feathers1928

phonus-bolonus1929

rhubarb1929

spinach1929

toffeea1930

tomtit1930

hockey1931

phoney baloney1933

moody1934

cockalorum1936

cock1937

mess1937

waffle1937

berley1941

bull dust1943

crud1943

globaloney1943

hubba-hubba1944

pish1944

phooey1946

asswipe1947

chickenshit1947

slag1948

batshit1950

goop1950

slop1952

cack1954

doo-doo1954

cobbler1955

horse shit1955

nyamps1955

pony1956

horse manure1957

waffling1958

bird shit1959

codswallop1959

how's your father1959

dog shit1963

cods1965

shmegegge1968

pucky1970

taradiddle1970

mouthwash1971

wank1974

gobshite1977

mince1985

toss1990

arse1993

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [noun] > futile activity

vanity1303

superfluitya1398

mappery1609

waste-time1609

tautology1639

boondoggling1935

taradiddle1970

1970 N. Bawden Birds on Trees ix. 152 You take things easier as you get older, less fuss and tarradiddle.

1976 Economist 12 June 51/1 There is much taradiddle in the City about the Bank's moral obligation to make restitution. Taradiddle it is.

1984 Listener 5 Jan. 18/1 There is a silly middle-class snobbery about muesli, wheatgerm, pulses and all that Posy Simmonds health-food taradiddle.

1990 Daily Tel. 13 Mar. 20/6 As for those MPs who had been telling Sunday newspapers that they thought Mrs Thatcher ought to retire before the next election, that was ‘absolute taradiddle’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

taradiddletarradiddlev.

Etymology: < taradiddle n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˌtaraˈdiddle.

slang or colloquial.

1. intransitive. To tell taradiddles or fibs.

ΚΠ

1880 [see taradiddler n. at Derivatives].

2. transitive. To impose upon, or bring into some condition, by telling fibs.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lie, tell (lies) [verb (transitive)] > deceive by lying

gabc1275

steeka1400

taradiddle1828

to sell (a person) a packet1886

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lie, tell (lies) [verb (transitive)] > effect by lying

lie1720

taradiddle1828

1828 Examiner 658/1 His enemies..squibbed, and paragraphed, and taradiddled him to death.

1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II. 852/1 Tarra-diddled, imposed upon, generally by lies.

Derivatives

ˌtaraˈdiddler n. one who taradiddles, a petty liar.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun] > a liar > petty

storyteller1696

fibber1723

storier1835

story1847

fibster1848

fib1861

taradiddler1880

1880 Society 29 Oct. Perhaps there is not a more facile..tarradiddler than the London correspondent of the provincial newspaper.

1909 Athenæum 6 Mar. 281/1 A barefaced tarradiddler or a prophet.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

单词	taradiddle
释义	taradiddletarradiddlen. /ˌtarəˈdɪd(ə)l/main stress shifting Forms: Also 1800s tarri-, tally-. Etymology: compare diddle v.³ 2 and diddle n. 2: the first element is obscure: compare tara int.¹ slang or colloquial. A trifling falsehood, a petty lie; a colloquial euphemism for a lie; a ‘fib’. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun] > a falsehood, lie > trivial fib1611 story1648 flaw1725 fibbing1749 taradiddle1796 yed1808 1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Taradiddle, a fib, or falsity. 1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows III. xliv. 143 Telling a tarradiddle or two. a1865 E. C. Gaskell Wives & Daughters (1866) II. xviii. 182 Oh, don't call them lies, sister; it's such a strong, ugly word. Please call them tallydiddles, for I don't believe she meant any harm. 1882 J. Payn Thicker than Water i Our widow paid..the compliment of telling a ‘tarradiddle’ or white lie. 1885 T. H. Huxley Let. 23 Feb. in L. Huxley Life & Lett. T. H. Huxley (1900) II. 97 Everybody told us it would be very cold, and, as usual, everybody told taradiddles. Draft additions 1993 b. Pretentious or empty talk; senseless, unproductive activity; nonsense, = twaddle n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] magged talea1387 moonshine1468 trumperyc1485 foolishness1531 trash1542 baggage1545 flim-flam1570 gear1570 rubbisha1576 fiddle-faddle1577 stuff1579 fible-fable1581 balductum1593 pill1608 nonsense1612 skimble-skamble1619 porridge1642 mataeology1656 fiddle-come-faddle1663 apple sauce1672 balderdash1674 flummery1749 slang1762 all my eye1763 diddle-daddle1778 (all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781 twaddle1782 blancmange1790 fudge1791 twiddle-twaddle1798 bothering1803 fee-faw-fum1811 slip-slop1811 nash-gab1816 flitter-tripe1822 effutiation1823 bladderdash1826 ráiméis1828 fiddlededee1843 pickles1846 rot1846 kelter1847 bosh1850 flummadiddle1850 poppycock1852 Barnum1856 fribble-frabble1859 kibosh1860 skittle1864 cod1866 Collyweston1867 punk1869 slush1869 stupidness1873 bilge-water1878 flapdoodle1878 tommyrot1880 ruck1882 piffle1884 flamdoodle1888 razzmatazz1888 balls1889 pop1890 narrischkeit1892 tosh1892 footle1894 tripe1895 crap1898 bunk1900 junk1906 quatsch1907 bilge1908 B.S.1912 bellywash1913 jazz1913 wash1913 bullshit?1915 kid-stakes1916 hokum1917 bollock1919 bullsh1919 bushwa1920 noise1920 bish-bosh1922 malarkey1923 posh1923 hooey1924 shit1924 heifer dust1927 madam1927 baloney1928 horse feathers1928 phonus-bolonus1929 rhubarb1929 spinach1929 toffeea1930 tomtit1930 hockey1931 phoney baloney1933 moody1934 cockalorum1936 cock1937 mess1937 waffle1937 berley1941 bull dust1943 crud1943 globaloney1943 hubba-hubba1944 pish1944 phooey1946 asswipe1947 chickenshit1947 slag1948 batshit1950 goop1950 slop1952 cack1954 doo-doo1954 cobbler1955 horse shit1955 nyamps1955 pony1956 horse manure1957 waffling1958 bird shit1959 codswallop1959 how's your father1959 dog shit1963 cods1965 shmegegge1968 pucky1970 taradiddle1970 mouthwash1971 wank1974 gobshite1977 mince1985 toss1990 arse1993 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [noun] > futile activity vanity1303 superfluitya1398 mappery1609 waste-time1609 tautology1639 boondoggling1935 taradiddle1970 1970 N. Bawden Birds on Trees ix. 152 You take things easier as you get older, less fuss and tarradiddle. 1976 Economist 12 June 51/1 There is much taradiddle in the City about the Bank's moral obligation to make restitution. Taradiddle it is. 1984 Listener 5 Jan. 18/1 There is a silly middle-class snobbery about muesli, wheatgerm, pulses and all that Posy Simmonds health-food taradiddle. 1990 Daily Tel. 13 Mar. 20/6 As for those MPs who had been telling Sunday newspapers that they thought Mrs Thatcher ought to retire before the next election, that was ‘absolute taradiddle’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2020). taradiddletarradiddlev. Etymology: < taradiddle n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˌtaraˈdiddle. slang or colloquial. 1. intransitive. To tell taradiddles or fibs. ΚΠ 1880 [see taradiddler n. at Derivatives]. 2. transitive. To impose upon, or bring into some condition, by telling fibs. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lie, tell (lies) [verb (transitive)] > deceive by lying gabc1275 steeka1400 taradiddle1828 to sell (a person) a packet1886 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lie, tell (lies) [verb (transitive)] > effect by lying lie1720 taradiddle1828 1828 Examiner 658/1 His enemies..squibbed, and paragraphed, and taradiddled him to death. 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II. 852/1 Tarra-diddled, imposed upon, generally by lies. Derivatives ˌtaraˈdiddler n. one who taradiddles, a petty liar. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun] > a liar > petty storyteller1696 fibber1723 storier1835 story1847 fibster1848 fib1861 taradiddler1880 1880 Society 29 Oct. Perhaps there is not a more facile..tarradiddler than the London correspondent of the provincial newspaper. 1909 Athenæum 6 Mar. 281/1 A barefaced tarradiddler or a prophet. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1796v.1828
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