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Definition of Tarradiddles
1. tarradiddle [n] - See also: tarradiddle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tarradiddles
Literary usage of Tarradiddles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1820)
"On my drawing out the tarradiddles—the once white, knowing kersey tarradiddles,
my companion evinced much distress; but on my unfolding them, and gradually ..."
2. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1875)
"... knowingly, to tell tarradiddles, was own brother to the unlucky Jones, of whom
he says, simply enough—" After this, he became sober and penitent, ..."
3. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"They were tarradiddles which she told later about her origin: that her mother
was a Roman marchesa and her father court physician to Victor Emmanuel II, ..."
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