English noun: tarradiddle | |||
| 1. | tarradiddle (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, taradiddle | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | lie, prevarication | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | cock-and-bull story, fairy story, fairy tale, fairytale, song and dance | ||
| 2. | tarradiddle (communication) pretentious or silly talk or writing | ||
| Synonyms | baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality | ||
| Domain usage | argot, cant, jargon, lingo, patois, slang, vernacular | ||