This Week’s Fun & Fancy Word: Taradiddle!
This Week’s Fun & Fancy Word Is:
If your grandfather is like mine… be sure to drop a hint to your younger cousin about not falling for the tall tales Grandpa spins, because they’re loaded with taradiddles — exaggerations, half-truths, you know… lies. Petty, inconsequential ones, but lies nonetheless.
Origins Of The Word Taradiddle
Taradiddle first appeared in English around the 1790s. It’s what is known as an “expressive formation,” which is a word created specifically to sound like what it means. In this case, a small lie, a fib, or pretentious nonsense.[1]
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