单词 | tiddlywink |
释义 | tiddlywinkn. 1. a. An unlicensed public-house or pawnshop; a small beershop; also kiddlywink. slang. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > beer- or ale-house alehouselOE beer-housea1513 change1609 barley-islanda1634 China-alehouse1662 mum-house1662 mug-house1685 purl house1700 porterhouse?1730 beer-cellar1732 kiddleywink1830 beer hall1837 tiddlywink1844 beer-garden1863 brasserie1864 purl-boat1902 bierstube1909 keller1927 bierhaus1930 1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows II. xxxiv. 275 Which does more to demoralize..the lower classes than a Tom and Jerry, tidley-wink, or gin-shop. 1887 W. Beatty-Kingston Mus. & Manners II. 15 All the tiny tiddlywinks and spacious beer-gardens filled to overflowing. b. Rhyming slang. A drink. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun] > a drink of strong drink?1490 drink1535 whiff1605 tip1612 wet1719 swilla1731 booze1732 slug1756 whitter1786 intoxication1799 O (or oh) be joyful1823 sneezer1823 north-wester1830 drain1836 damp1837 smile1839 snifter1844 liquor1860 rosiner1871 tiddlywink1880 bevvy1889 gargle1889 snort1889 jolt1904 smahan1914 tincture1914 taste1919 piss1925 drinkie1947 smash1959 shant1960 1880 D. W. Barrett Life & Work among Navvies (ed. 2) ii. ii. 40 Now, Jack, I'm goin' to get a tiddley wink of pig's ear. 1960 J. Franklyn Dict. Rhyming Slang 129/1 Tiddly wink..is applied more frequently to ‘shorts’..than to beer. 2. a. A game played with dominoes. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > table game > dominoes > [noun] > forms of game rounce1845 tiddlywink1857 matador1865 all fives1868 muggins1868 Malakoff1870 all fours1872 sniff1917 1857 ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue 43 At knock'emsdown and tiddlywink, To be a sharp you must not shrink. 1870 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. Nov. 672 The marked difference between Tidley-wink and other games of dominoes. ?1870 F. Hardy & J. R. Ware Mod. Hoyle 104 [article Dominoes] Tiddle-a-wink game... In this game..he who plays out first cries Tiddle-a-wink, having won. b. plural. 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 attributive. Also used figuratively of a useless or frivolous activity; esp. in to play tiddlywinks, to waste time on trivia. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > table game > tiddlywinks, etc. > [noun] squails1862 tiddlywinks1889 winks1942 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > be unimportant [verb (intransitive)] > behave in unimportant way to pick a salad1520 niggle1599 to play tiddlywinks1919 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > insubstantial > frivolous or not serious fribbling1654 frivolism1778 featherweight1812 frivolitya1832 fandangle1835 frivol1903 tiddlywinks1919 1889 Trade Marks Jrnl. 15 May 476 Tiddledy-Winks... Toys or games. Joseph Assheton Fincher. 1890 Amer. Stationer 18 Sept. 691 In ‘Tiddledy Wink Tennis’ E. I. Horsman..has brought out a very pretty and lively parlor game. 1892 E. 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. 1895 Montgomery 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. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 4 Jan. 2/1 Cards, tiddley-winks, and ludo are played. 1906 19th Cent. Mar. 509 The Empress suggested the game of tiddlywinks for the Emperor's amusement. 1919 Collier's 8 Feb. 7 There's trouble down there and I've been playing tiddledy-winks on Broadway! 1947 Economist 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. 1964 New Yorker 4 Apr. 147 Others seem to take little interest in the organized activities, describing them as ‘make-work’ or ‘tiddlywinks’. 1975 Way to Play 135/1 Tiddlywinks golf sets, with tiddlywinks, greens, obstacles, and holes, are produced by various toy manufacturers. 1980 Disarmament 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 2b); hence, a similar counter used in other games. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > table game > tiddlywinks, etc. > [noun] > counter squails1862 wink1890 tiddlywink1891 1891 J. K. Bangs Tiddledywinks Tales 35 Jimmieboy thought a great deal of his Tiddledewinks and had been playing with them nearly all that day. 1939 J. 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. 1977 B. Jewell Sports & Games 109 The object was to flip the tiddlywink into one of the window openings and so ring the bell. 3. plural. Knick-knacks of victuals. slang. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [noun] > delicacy or titbit daintethc1290 daintyc1300 morselc1390 confection1393 delicec1405 delicacya1425 delicatea1475 friandise1484 deliciositiesa1500 daintive1526 junket1538 knack1548 daintrel1575 cate1578 pulpament1600 gaudy1622 regalo1622 daint1633 titbita1641 scitament1656 regale1673 knick-knack1682 nicety1704 bonne bouche1721 diablotin1770 sunket1788 regalement1795 confiture1802 bon-bon1821 sock1825 delicatessen1853 good things1861 tiddlywinks1893 1893 J. A. Barry Steve Brown's Bunyip 34 A drop o' good stuff, now, to wash these 'ere tiddlewinks down with. Derivatives ˈtiddlywink v. (intransitive) (a) to flip like a counter in tiddlywinks; (b) to play tiddlywinks. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (intransitive)] > turn over and over or roll > flip over tiddlywink1965 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > table game > tiddlywinks, etc. > [verb (intransitive)] wink1955 tiddlywink1965 1965 Northeastern 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. 1980 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel 11 Feb. 1. 6/4 (heading) Fame opens the eyes of those who tiddlywink. tiddlyˈwinker n. (a) a cheat, a trifler; (b) a tiddlywinks player. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > dishonesty > dishonest person > [noun] faitoura1340 fob1393 feature14.. foolmonger1593 napper1653 tiddlywinker1893 the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > [noun] > trifling activity or time-wasting > one who musardc1330 tifflerc1535 dalliera1568 pingler1578 puddlera1585 wag-wanton1601 fiddle-faddle1602 piddler1602 pedlara1625 potterer1837 frivolist1884 frivoller1889 tiddlywinker1893 muck-about1933 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > one who deceives swikec1000 wielerOE adderOE knavec1275 treacherc1290 guiler1303 gabbera1325 tricharda1327 faitoura1340 jugglera1340 beswiker1340 wernard1362 knackerc1380 beguilera1382 deceiver1382 illusor1382 deceivant1393 fob1393 falsea1400 mocker?c1450 feature14.. deceptor1484 seductor1490 bullera1500 troker?a1500 craftera1529 circumventorc1540 bobber1542 cloyner?1550 illuder?1550 tricker1550 double-dealer1567 treacherer1571 falsary1573 abuser1579 falser1579 treachetour1590 deluder1592 ignis fatuus1592 foolmonger1593 prestigiator1595 aguiler1598 baffler1606 cog-foist1606 feaguer1610 guile-man1614 hocus-pocus1624 colt1632 hoodwink1638 blindfoldera1649 napper1653 cheat1664 fooler1677 underdealer1682 circumvenerc1686 chincher1688 dodger1698 nickum1699 sheep-shearer1699 trickster1711 bilker1717 trickologist1723 taker-in1776 bilk1790 duper1792 Yorkshire bite1801 intake1808 gammoner1819 doer1840 delusionist1841 fiddler1857 snide1874 hoodwinker1884 tanger1886 take-down1888 tiddlywinker1893 wangler1912 frost1914 twicer1924 lurkman1945 jive-ass1964 skanker1973 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > table game > tiddlywinks, etc. > [noun] > player tiddlywinker1893 tiddler1958 winker1958 1893 J. A. Barry Steve Brown's Bunyip 145 They're nothin' but a lot o' tiddleywinkers up there. 1958 Sports Illustr. 7 Apr. m5 Each tiddlywinker plays with two large and four medium-size winks. 1975 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 25 May iv. 2/2 Dean, a high school mathematics teacher, is certainly Britain's top Tiddlywinker. tiddlyˈwinking n. and adj. (a) trifling, pottering; (b) the activity of playing tiddlywinks. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > [noun] > trifling activity or time-wasting loitering1362 triflinga1382 dalliance1567 piddling1580 baubling1608 idlement1622 concessation1623 paddling1642 sauntering1680 puddling1695 dawdle1813 dawdling1819 puttering1835 pottering1844 peddling1851 tiddlywinking1869 loiter1876 frivolling1882 potter1897 muckings1898 futzing1907 piffling1914 fucking1931 monkeying1932 muck-about1968 twatting1989 the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > [adjective] > engaged in trifling activity holidayc1450 wantonizing1599 peddling1613 poking1748 pottering1826 poky1828 piffling1848 puttering1855 footering1859 tiddlywinking1869 frivolling1882 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > table game > tiddlywinks, etc. > [noun] > playing tiddlywinking1971 1869 Routledge's Every 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. 1893 J. A. Barry Steve Brown's Bunyip 143 It was a fair an' square game... There wasn't no tiddleywinkin' in the thing. 1971 Ottawa Citizen 6 Feb. (Canad. Mag.) 24 He loves the game so much that in 1967 he played in a 67-hour tiddlywinking marathon. 1977 P. 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. tiddlyˈwinky adj. dialect tiny, insignificant. ΚΠ 1901 ‘Zack’ Tales Dunstable Weir 23 Over against Martin's cottage there was a tiddliwinkie bit o' a wood. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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