What's wrong with adding a word from a Word of the Day list, pheiticeira? I don't use the Merriam Webster list, but there are others I subscribe to, and I've added a few WODs here. :-)
"Mr B did not tell a whopper. This was no fib, plumper, porker or tarradiddle. There was definitely no deceit, mendacity or fabrication." - 'Looking Back', Western Mail, 11 May 2002.
# fib: a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?" # baloney: pretentious or silly talk or writing
What's wrong with adding a word from a Word of the Day list, pheiticeira? I don't use the Merriam Webster list, but there are others I subscribe to, and I've added a few WODs here. :-)
I wonder where the hell this word came from. It sounds just like paradiddle, which as silly words go, at least makes some kind of sense. Hm.
Oddly enough, I flagged tarradiddle for one of my lists before it appeared in my email today. True dinks.
way to take the word from word of the day M-W.
"Mr B did not tell a whopper. This was no fib, plumper, porker or tarradiddle. There was definitely no deceit, mendacity or fabrication."
- 'Looking Back', Western Mail, 11 May 2002.
# fib: a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?"
# baloney: pretentious or silly talk or writing