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Mar 25, 2011 This week's theme Miscellaneous words This week's words usufruct bailiwick effulgent lapidary taradiddle A Word A Day the book "Delightful." -The New York Times Buy Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg taradiddle or tarradiddle PRONUNCIATION: (tar-uh-DID-l) MEANING: noun: 1. A petty lie. 2. Pretentious nonsense. ETYMOLOGY: Origin unknown. Earliest documented use: 1796. USAGE: "This investment is pure puffery and taradiddle." Malcolm Berko; Taking Stock; The State Journal-Register (Springfield, Illinois); Apr 26, 2010. Explore "taradiddle" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? -George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)

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