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Meanings of
taradiddle
in English
Portuguese
história
Catalan
història
Spanish
historia
Back to the meaning
A trivial lie.
story
tale
fib
Portuguese
história
Portuguese
mexerico
Catalan
poca-soltada
Back to the meaning
Pretentious or silly talk or writing.
humbug
drool
bosh
tosh
twaddle
baloney
tommyrot
bilgewater
boloney
tarradiddle
Portuguese
mexerico
Synonyms
Examples for "
humbug
"
humbug
drool
bosh
tosh
twaddle
Examples for "
humbug
"
1
Of course some in Detroit have an answer to Lovins's visions:
humbug
.
2
Never let it be said I was bah
humbug
about Christmas traditions.
3
Nothing can hurt so much in the end as lies and
humbug
.
4
All this unification of nationalities is the great
humbug
of the century.
5
Let us say in passing, that the American does not like
humbug
.
1
For nearly 20 years, Shemar Moore has been making the ladies
drool
.
2
A long, glistening thread of
drool
detached itself and fell onto me.
3
Water began to
drool
through the holes and over the opened-up skin.
4
They are serious seizures, but he doesn't shake and
drool
or convulse.
5
But I made it safely, without collapsing into a puddle of
drool
.
1
I wish you'd drop that sort of sentimental
bosh
,
Skipper; especially now.
2
Oh, he wanted to come, but I put the
kye
-
bosh
on that.
3
What you call
bosh
is the only thing men dare die for.
4
He must surely be aware that much he said was superstitious
bosh
.
5
If my reader finds this
bosh
and abracadabra, all right for him.
1
Don't believe that
tosh
about Lansdowne Road being dead in the water.
2
Say how grieved you are and all the rest of the
tosh
.
3
Finish by asking him does he get paid for this
tosh
.
4
I mean, roping you in to listen to this frightful
tosh
!
5
What if this was sentimental
tosh
,
the cruelest lie of all?
1
Not that I'm buyin' this technical
twaddle
for one minute, you understand.
2
Whoever, in a respected publishing house, was responsible for such whimsical
twaddle
?
3
They are too sensible to indulge in mere
twaddle
about the weather.
4
We forget the immense amount of
twaddle
that the great epochs produced.
5
The solemn unction with which he pronounced this
twaddle
is beyond description.
1
Yet some critics in the health care profession say that's all
baloney
.
2
Other scientists said
baloney
-
that
powerful
new cooling methods would eventually condense them.
3
He said: We want no more stunts or PR
baloney
from Boris.
4
Award-winning science fiction author Brian Aldiss has another term for it:
baloney
.
5
That was a lot of
baloney
you had in the paper .
1
All I tried to do was to make her forget the
tommyrot
.
2
I think Humphrey's a fakir, and all this sort of thing
tommyrot
.
3
And we all said it was
tommyrot
,
and she was to tell us.
4
Seems to me it's as good as the
tommyrot
you write.
5
Can you imagine our minds embracing each other, thrilling at the contact,-oh
,
it
's
tommyrot
.
1
He turned his head and looked at the hatchet in the boat's
bilgewater
.
2
The hatchet still lay in the bloody
bilgewater
.
3
At other seasons it affords but a scanty supply of an "aqueous matter" resembling
bilgewater
.
4
Tess suddenly found herself pinned to the ceiling of her boat with
bilgewater
surging around her head.
5
The tracks led off the beaten track, down the path not taken, through a sleepy hollow, over a tarn of brackish
bilgewater
.
1
Nobody will care about you if you are a phony
boloney
.
2
I speared the tiny ball of
boloney
a Specimen to examine.
3
What a load of
boloney
.
4
Such is not appearing to happen so I will go eat a
boloney
& cheese sandwich with a glass of ice tea with it.
5
"You've got a piece of
boloney
stuck in your teeth Ray." While I poked around my Canines he spoke to me very sincere.
1
Well;- Itoldhim a
tarradiddle
of course.
2
It will be for you, gentlemen, to decide where there is any grain of truth in all this
tarradiddle
.
3
I've no right to come here after all the
tarradiddles
I told you.
4
'There is to be a little
tarradiddle
told, and I am to tell it?'
5
"So it seems you can't tell a
tarradiddle
for me?"
Usage of
taradiddle
in English
1
I hesitated; then resolved on a
taradiddle
,
-
in
Marjorie
's
interest.
2
You'll have to-Another little
taradiddle
in his chest.
3
His heart did a jagged
taradiddle
and he held his breath... but then it settled again.
4
Considering that it was about six-thirty, I wanted to ask who was telling a
taradiddle
now; but I resisted the temptation, and replied-
5
Everybody told us it would be very cold, and, as usual, everybody told
taradiddles
.
6
'I perceive you are of opinion that I have been told a
taradiddle
.
7
'But what is the
taradiddle
?
-
do
n't
you
see I'm burning?'
Grammar, pronunciation and more
Frequent collocations
jag taradiddle
tell a taradiddle
Translations for
taradiddle
Portuguese
história
mentirinha
conto
mentira
mexerico
Catalan
història
conte
bola
mentida
trola
poca-soltada
bajanades
bestiesa
ximpleria
disbarat
Spanish
historia
cuento
bola
mentira
Taradiddle
through the time