| taradiddle | (noun) a trivial lie | Synonyms: fib, story, tale, tarradiddle |
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| (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
| tarantella | (noun) a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons | Synonyms: tarantelle |
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| (noun) music composed in six-eight time for dancing the tarantella | - |
| tarantelle | (noun) a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons | Synonyms: tarantella |
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| tarantism | (noun) a nervous disorder characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance; popularly attributed to bite of the southern European tarantula or wolf spider | - |
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| tarantula | (noun) large hairy tropical spider with fangs that can inflict painful but not highly venomous bites | - |
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| (noun) large southern European spider once thought to be the cause of tarantism (uncontrollable bodily movement) | Synonyms: European wolf spider, Lycosa tarentula |