Pronounced: PAN-gram (alt: PAN-gruhm; PANG-gram), noun
Notes: I didn’t know this word when I first came across it, but I know it now
Yesterday’s word
The word taradiddle means
- a small lie; a fib
- pretentious nonsense
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1700s
Background / Comments
Our word is used informally. I knew the first definition; it was used in the Lord Peter Wimsey story Clouds of Witness by Dorothy Sayers. I was not aware of the second definition. The origin of our word is uncertain.
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