tarradiddle

• Far-fetched, but I understand the tallest, the most preposterous tarradiddle will be gulped down whole by your public. —  Artists in Crime - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 06: 1938
• 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 - Christianna Brand - Cockrill 06: 1955
• 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 But I can tell you this much," she said, with great severity, "that if you keep on doing everything the baby tells you to do, I will buy you a ticket back to Virginia and send you home. —  Betty at Fort Blizzard
• Lady Lufton's tarradiddle was of a nature that is usually considered excusable--at least with grown people; but, nevertheless, she would have been nearer to perfection could she have confined herself to the truth. —  Framley Parsonage
• "I heard that tarradiddle in York City. —  Janice Meredith

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