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n. - Pretentious or silly talk or writing; A trivial lie.

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Usage examples (34)
  • But I wasn't fooled by that tarradiddle about the cold.
  • O Lady Lufton! have you not written a tarradiddle to your friend?
  • ‘There is to be a little tarradiddle told, and I am to tell it?’
  • He abandoned the tarradiddle and to the measureless astonishment of the shopkeeper threw himself into an impersonation of Miss Trapp.
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