" taradiddle "

1: a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive;

  * e.g., " ... his tales of adventure are peppered with tongue-in-cheek taradiddles and obvious fabrications "

•  Synonyms : 

•  fable,

•  fabrication,

•  fairy tale,

•  falsehood,

•  falsity,

•  fib,

•  lie,

•  mendacity,

•  prevarication,

•  story,

•  tale,

•  untruth,

•  whopper

•  Antonyms : 

•  truth

2: language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense;

  * e.g., " ... regards literary deconstruction as so much tenure-track taradiddle "

•  Synonyms : 

•  applesauce,

•  balderdash,

•  baloney,

•  beans,

•  bilge,

•  blah,

•  blarney,

•  blather,

•  blatherskite,

•  blither,

•  bosh,

•  bull,

•  bunk,

•  bunkum,

•  claptrap,

•  codswallop,

•  crapola,

•  crock,

•  drivel,

•  drool,

•  fiddle,

•  fiddle-faddle,

•  fiddlesticks,

•  flannel,

•  flapdoodle,

•  folderol,

•  folly,

•  foolishness,

•  fudge,

•  garbage,

•  guff,

•  hogwash,

•  hokeypokey,

•  hokum,

•  hoodoo,

•  hooey,

•  horsefeathers,

•  humbug,

•  humbuggery,

•  jazz,

•  malarkey,

•  moonshine,

•  muck,

•  nerts,

•  nonsense,

•  nuts,

•  piffle,

•  poppycock,

•  punk,

•  rot,

•  rubbish,

•  senselessness,

•  silliness,

•  slush,

•  stupidity,

•  tommyrot,

•  tosh,

•  trash,

•  trumpery,

•  twaddle

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)