tarradiddle

nouns

a trivial lie

"he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?"

fib, story, tale, taradiddle, tarradiddle

pretentious or silly talk or writing

baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle