slang or dial. Also 7 tantaublin, 7–9 -ablin, 9 -ablet; -addling.
1. A tart or round piece of pastry. Now dial.
1630. J. Taylor (Water P.), Gt. Eater Kent, Wks. I. 146/1. Pancake, or Fritter,… Mackeroone, Kickshaw, or Tantablin.
a. 1825. Forby, 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.
1876. T. M. Bound, Hereford & Shropsh. Provinc. (E.D.D.), Tantadlin, an apple dumpling made in circular form.
† 2. A lump of excrement, a turd. Obs.
1654. Gayton, 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.
1785. Grose, Dict. Vulg. T., Tantadlin tart, a sirreverence, human excrement.
3. attrib. or adj. (?)
1871. Cowden 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.
