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(pl. noun) - (1) Childhood nonsense. "To tell Doldrums," to talk wildly.
--Walter Skeat's Specimens of English Dialects, Westmoreland, 1879
(2) Dildrams, strange tales; especially in the phrase to tell dildrams. Lancashire.
--Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1898-1905
January 16, 2018