squidgern.
/ˈskwɪdʒə/ Tiddlywinks.
1. The larger wink used to propel or flip a player's winks.
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squidger1955
1955 Sci. of Tiddlywinks (Cambridge Univ. Tiddlywinks Club) 6 The game is played with five variable factors..(3) The squidger (the instrument used to flick with; this is usually another round counter in normal games).
1958 Sports Illustr. 7 Apr. m5 Each tiddlywinker plays with two large and four medium-size winks and, to hoist them, uses a wink of suitable size. It is called a squidger.
1975 Sunday Mail Color Mag. (Brisbane) 28 Sept. 21/2 The squidger is the tiddly-winker's most valuable tool—the large wink, with which he flips the smaller counters.
1977 R. Sharp & J. Piggott Bk. of Games 165 The owner of a squopped wink must wait until it is freed... The owner of a squopping wink..must ensure that his squidger first touched his own wink.
2. One who propels winks with another wink of larger size. rare.
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squidger1962
squopper1962
1962 Life 14 Dec. 122 Two-man units each with a powerful offensive squidger and a canny defensive squopper.
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