tarradiddle

• “O Lady Lufton! have you not written a tarradiddle to your friend?”

  Framley Parsonage

• “‘There is to be a little tarradiddle told, and I am to tell it?’”

  John Caldigate

• “But I wasn't fooled by that tarradiddle about the cold.”

  The Silicon Mage

• “The tarradiddle was not entirely lucid, since his attempts at the Spanish-Italian argot of the island consisted in speaking very loudly in pidgin-English and adding an ‘a’ after arbitrarily chosen syllables.”

  Tour de Force

• “He abandoned the tarradiddle and to the measureless astonishment of the shopkeeper threw himself into an impersonation of Miss Trapp.”

  Tour de Force

• “He left Rodd on guard over his wife and went down to the shop, full of a tarradiddle about an Inglese who had recommended him to buy a similar knife to one purchased that day.”

  Tour de Force

• “As an example of how anything can be twisted to make mischief, I may quote here an absurd tarradiddle about Mrs. Kendal never forgetting in after years that in the Bristol stock company she had to play the singing fairy to my Titania in “A Midsummer Night's Dream.””

  The Story of My Life

• “This may quite easily be (to begin with) an entertaining tarradiddle of Sam's own invention, told, like many other even more improbable stories, solely to amuse Mr. Pickwick.”

  All Things Considered

• “In vain Kettle pleaded "fo 'Gord --" always a forerunner of a tarradiddle -- that he "didn't have no notion on the blessed yearth as Miss Betty would mind," and also wept copiously when Mrs. Fortescue frankly told him that he was a tarradiddler, and made, for the hundredth time, a very awful threat to Kettle.”

  Betty at Fort Blizzard

• “A tarradiddle is what you say when you are, so to speak, took by surprise.”

  Girls of the Forest

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