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tanˈtadlin, tanˈtoblin slang or dial.
Also 7 tantaublin, 7–9 -ablin, 9 -ablet; -addling, 20– -af(f)lin.
1. A tart or round piece of pastry. Now dial.
1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Gt. Eater Kent Wks. i. 146/1 Pancake, or Fritter,..Mackeroone, Kickshaw, or Tantablin. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Tantablet, a sort of tart, in which the fruit is not covered by a crust, but fancifully tricked and flourished, with slender shreds of pastry. 1876T. M. Bound Hereford. & Shropsh. Provinc. (E.D.D.), Tantadlin, an apple dumpling made in circular form. 1905in Eng. Dial. Dict. VI. 29/1 (S. Not.) She made cakes an' tantaflin sorts o' things. A bit o' that beef for me; a don't care for non o' yer tarts an' tantaflins. 1911D. H. Lawrence White Peacock iii. 38 I'm sure you like tantafflins, don't you, Georgie?
†2. A lump of excrement, a turd. Obs.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iii. ii, But our Don could not distinguish a Tantoblin from a Pancake. Ibid. iv. iv. 191 Such odour breath'd, and such strong airs were hobling, As use to ascend from a new laid Tantaublin. 1785Grose Dict. Vulg. T., Tantadlin tart, a sirreverence, human excrement.
3. attrib. or adj. (?)
1871Cowden Clarke in Gentl. Mag. Aug. 336 Horace Walpole (who, by the way, seems to have been a tantaddling old eaves-dropper) has recorded that he [Addison] died drunk with brandy. |