taradiddle

• Indeed, if you weren't connected with the affair, I'd give twice as many Philip's smile contradicted this awful taradiddle, and Patty rejoiced at his nonsense. —  Patty Blossom
• When this anecdote appeared in print, good old Dr. Dwight, shocked at the taradiddle, and fearing its evil influence on Washington's fame, spoiled the joke by explaining in a book that "a gentleman of great respectability, who was present when General Washington made the observation referred to, told me that he said, when describing those mosquitoes to Mr. Weld, that they 'bit through his stockings above the boots.'" —  The True George Washington [10th Ed.]
• It's the very worst taradiddle she ever got off! " —  Vicky Van
• 'I perceive you are of opinion that I have been told a taradiddle. —  The Beetle
• 'But what is the taradiddle? —  The Beetle

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms