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tiddlywink, n.|ˈtɪdlɪwɪŋk|
Also tidley-, tiddley-, tiddle-a-wink, (sense 2 b, orig.) Tiddledy-Winks.
[In sense 1 perh. connected with slang tiddly a drink, drunk; in 3 perh. with tiddly dial. or baby-talk for ‘little’.]
1. a. An unlicensed public-house or pawnshop; a small beershop; also kiddlywink. slang.
1844J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & W. xxxiv, Which does more to demoralise..the lower classes than a Tom and Jerry, tidley-wink, or gin-shop. 1887W. Beatty-Kingston Music & Mann. II. 15 All the tiny tiddlywinks and spacious beer-gardens filled to overflowing.
b. Rhyming slang. A drink.
1880[see pig's ear s.v. pig n.1 16 c]. 1960J. Franklyn Dict. Rhyming Slang 129/1 Tiddly wink..is applied more frequently to ‘shorts’..than to beer.
2. a. A game played with dominoes. b. pl. A game in which small counters are caused to spring from the table into a bell-like or cylindrical receptacle, by pressing upon their edges with larger counters. Also attrib. Also used fig. of a useless or frivolous activity; esp. in phr. to play tiddlywinks, to waste time on trivia.
1857‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue 43 At knock'emsdown and tiddlywink, To be a sharp you must not shrink. 1870Hardy & Ware Mod. Hoyle 104 (Dominoes) Tiddle-a-wink game... In this game..he who plays out first cries Tiddle-a-wink, having won. 1870Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. Nov. 672 The marked difference between Tidley-wink and other games of dominoes. 1889Trade Marks Jrnl. 15 May 476 Tiddledy-Winks... Toys or games. Joseph Assheton Fincher. 1890Amer. Stationer 18 Sept. 691 In ‘Tiddledy Wink Tennis’ E. I. Horsman..has brought out a very pretty and lively parlor game. 1892E. Lytton Let. 24 Apr. in E. Lutyens Blessed Girl (1953) vii. 97 We all played the most exciting game that ever was invented, called Tiddleywinks. It consists in flipping counters in a bowl. 1895Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 236/2 Tiddledy Winks may be played by any number... Each player is provided with four to six counters..and one larger one..to press to the edge of the smaller one and..cause it to jump into the cup..in the centre of the table. 1898Westm. Gaz. 4 Jan. 2/1 Cards, tiddley-winks, and ludo are played. 190619th Cent. Mar. 509 The Empress suggested the game of tiddlywinks for the Emperor's amusement. 1919Collier's 8 Feb. 7 There's trouble down there and I've been playing tiddledy-winks on Broadway! 1947Economist 18 Oct. 626/1 The storm was long predicted..yet when its first icy gust blew in the windows of the Cabinet room.., it found the Ministers playing tiddleywinks. 1964New Yorker 4 Apr. 147 Others seem to take little interest in the organized activities, describing them as ‘make-work’ or ‘tiddlywinks’. 1975Way to Play 135/1 Tiddlywinks golf sets, with tiddlywinks, greens, obstacles, and holes, are produced by various toy manufacturers. 1980Disarmament Times 6 Oct. 4/4 This is not a game of diplomatic tiddleywinks. It is, rather, the game of human survival.
c. Any of the counters used in the game of tiddlywinks (sense 2 b); hence, a similar counter used in other games.
1891J. K. Bangs Tiddledywinks Tales 35 Jimmieboy thought a great deal of his Tiddledewinks and had been playing with them nearly all that day. 1939J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath iii. 22 His front wheel struck the edge of the shell, flipped the turtle like a tiddly-wink,..and rolled it off the highway. 1949‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-Four iii. 296 Soon he was wildly excited and shouting with laughter as the tiddleywinks climbed hopefully up the ladders and then came slithering down the snakes again. 1977B. Jewell Sports & Games 109 The object was to flip the tiddlywink into one of the window openings and so ring the bell.
3. pl. Knick-knacks of victuals. slang.
1893J. A. Barry S. Brown's Bunyip, etc. 34 A drop o' good stuff, now, to wash these 'ere tiddlewinks down with.
Hence (slang) ˈtiddlywink v. intr., (a) to flip like a counter in tiddlywinks; (b) to play tiddlywinks; tiddlyˈwinker, (a) a cheat, a trifler; (b) a tiddlywinks player; tiddlyˈwinking n. and a., (a) trifling, pottering; (b) the activity of playing tiddlywinks; tiddlyˈwinky a. dial., tiny, insignificant.
1869Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. 589 Performed some ‘tiddly-winking’ work, that is he had shifted a few spadesful of earth. 1888‘R. Boldrewood’ Squatter's Dream vii, I wonder what old Morgan would say to all this here tiddley-winkin', with steam-engine, and wire-fences. 1893J. A. Barry S. Brown's Bunyip, etc. 143 It was a fair an' square game... There wasn't no tiddleywinkin' in the thing. Ibid. 145 They're nothin' but a lot o' tiddleywinkers up there. 1901‘Zack’ Tales Dunstable Weir 23 Over against Martin's cottage there was a tiddliwinkie bit o' a wood. 1958Sports Illustrated 7 Apr. m5 Each tiddlywinker plays with two large and four medium-size winks. 1965Northeastern Reporter 2nd Ser. CCVI. 847/2 We have raised a lot of manhole covers, and you never walk across them to see if they are going to tiddlywink. 1971Ottawa Citizen 6 Feb. (Canad. Mag.) 24 He loves the game so much that in 1967 he played in a 67-hour tiddlywinking marathon. 1975Milwaukee Jrnl. 25 May iv. 2/2 Dean, a high school mathematics teacher, is certainly Britain's top Tiddlywinker. 1977P. Dickson Mature Person's Guide 162 The general consensus in tiddlywinking circles is that all of this might change if the game was given a new name. 1980Milwaukee Sentinel 11 Feb. 1. 6/4 (heading) Fame opens the eyes of those who tiddlywink. |