{"id":23557,"date":"2024-07-17T16:39:18","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T16:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23557"},"modified":"2024-07-17T16:40:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T16:40:26","slug":"tarradiddles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23557","title":{"rendered":"Taradiddles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the interesting words that was mentioned on the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_tW9pfCqIgY?si=F8M8kfTP117ypdXs\">Words Unravelled<\/a> podcast that I listened to today was <strong>taradiddle<\/strong>, which apparently means a little white lie.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/tarradiddle\">Wiktionary<\/a>, <strong>taradiddle<\/strong> (or <strong>tarradiddle<\/strong>) means a trivial lie, a fib, silly talk or writing, or humbug. <\/p>\n<p>It possibly comes from <strong>diddle<\/strong> (to cheat, swindle, waste time, etc.), which might come from <strong>duddle<\/strong>, a dialect word meaning to trick, and\/or <strong>diddle \/ duddle<\/strong> (to totter), from Middle English <em>dideren<\/em> (to shake, quiver, tremble) and <em>bididren<\/em> (to seduce, deceive), from Old English <em>bedidrian, bedyderian<\/em> (to trick, deceive) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/diddle#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adulau\/53129384568\/in\/photolist-2oWRZ2S-SH7Bxa-6NG6CB-2o1MDfp-89bUZx-7Ka8KZ-DAwk3x-3yBbB5-aGTHu-6JQ4V1-2nsRetu-31uAi4-8fRWRE-6qFpRF-3h9ecv-nMVEbG-DQMpTJ-G8Vwcv-7UGXf6-JPtxn-2pGms1u-2QvMYB-6aGD46-6bMVig-4asJK2-3SB7SG-etTFLK-6qwva8-HRznWh-2hwrEWw-8fLMwT-ciG9z-8qr4S4-Btt5ch-Sw5ZjC-2hpEYy8-tz1m6x-zUzNQ-4fyrxR-dfpzHk-5AqAFH-3HkMSF-7Xt4SE-24xGi-2kePze5-2m5714o-TYz7i4-MGUsL-RtTyoP-dzTtsA\" title=\"crazy drummer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53129384568_e7f5abba29_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"423\" alt=\"crazy drummer\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A <strong>diddle<\/strong> is also something that drummers do involving two consecutive notes played by the same hand. Related drumming terms include <strong>paradiddle<\/strong>, which involves playing four even strokes in the order &#8216;right left right right&#8217; or &#8216;left right left left&#8217; [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/paradiddle\">source<\/a>], and <strong>paradiddle-diddle<\/strong>, which involves playing six even strokes in the order \u2018right left right right left left\u2019 or \u2018left right left left right right&#8217;  [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/paradiddle-diddle#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Another <strong>diddlesome<\/strong> word is <strong>diddle-daddle<\/strong>, which means to dilly-dally, shilly-shally, dawdle, waste time or procrastinate, something I&#8217;m quite good at [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/diddle-daddle#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, <strong>shilly-shally<\/strong> is a reduplication of &#8216;Shall I?&#8221;, and used to be <em>Shill-I-shall-I<\/em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/shilly-shally\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the interesting words that was mentioned on the Words Unravelled podcast that I listened to today was taradiddle, which apparently means a little white lie. According to Wiktionary, taradiddle (or tarradiddle) means a trivial lie, a fib, silly talk or writing, or humbug. It possibly comes from diddle (to cheat, swindle, waste time, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23557"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23571,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23557\/revisions\/23571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}