- tiddlywinks
- tiddlywinks children's tile-flipping game, 1857, probably an arbitrary formation from baby talk, but perhaps from slang tiddly-wink "unlicensed drink shop" (1844), from slang tiddly "a drink, drunk."
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Tiddlywinks — is an indoor game played with sets of small discs called winks lying on a surface, usually a flat mat. Players use a larger disc called a squidger to pop a wink into flight by pressing down on one side of the wink. The objective of the game is to … Wikipedia
Tiddlywinks — Tid dly*winks , n. Same as {Tiddledywinks}. Kipling. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
tiddlywinks — (US tiddledywinks) ► PLURAL NOUN (treated as sing. ) ▪ a game in which small plastic counters are flicked into a central receptacle, using a larger counter. ORIGIN originally denoting an unlicensed public house, also a game of dominoes: of… … English terms dictionary
tiddlywinks — [tid′ l dē wiŋks΄tid′lē wiŋks΄, tid′ l ēwiŋks΄] n. [prob. < tiddly, child s form of LITTLE: cf. TIDDLY1] a game in which the players try to snap little colored disks from a surface into a cup by pressing their edges with a larger disk: also… … English World dictionary
tiddlywinks — Tiddledywinks Tid dle*dy*winks , n. A game in which the object is to snap small disks of plastic, bone, ivory, or the like, from a flat surface, as of a table, into a small cup or basket; called also {tiddlywinks}. [U. S.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
tiddlywinks — noun plural but singular in construction see tiddledywinks … New Collegiate Dictionary
tiddlywinks — /tid lee wingks /, n. (used with a sing. v.) a game played on a flat surface, in which players attempt to snap small plastic disks into a cup by pressing the edges of the disks with larger ones. Also, tiddledywinks /tid l dee wingks /. [1835 45;… … Universalium
tiddlywinks — noun a) A game in which the objective is to shoot winks into a cup or at a target by flicking them with a shooter (nowadays called a squidger) from a surface. b) A competitive partnership game in which the objective is to gain an advantage over… … Wiktionary
tiddlywinks — tid|dly|winks [ˈtıdliwıŋks] n [U] [Date: 1800 1900; Origin: Probably from tiddlywink place for drinking alcohol (1800 1900), perhaps from tiddly drunk (19 21 centuries)] a children s game in which you try to make small round pieces of plastic… … Dictionary of contemporary English
tiddlywinks — tid|dly|winks [ tıdli,wıŋks ] noun uncount a game in which you try to make flat round pieces of plastic fly into a container by pressing the edge of them with a larger piece. Each piece is called a tiddlywink … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
