English noun: taradiddle | |||
1. | taradiddle (communication) a trivial lie | ||
Samples | He told a fib about eating his spinach. How can I stop my child from telling stories?. | ||
Synonyms | fib, story, tale, tarradiddle | ||
Broader (hypernym) | lie, prevarication | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | cock-and-bull story, fairy story, fairy tale, fairytale, song and dance | ||
2. | taradiddle (communication) pretentious or silly talk or writing | ||
Synonyms | baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle | ||
Broader (hypernym) | bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality | ||
Domain usage | argot, cant, jargon, lingo, patois, slang, vernacular | ||