tiddlywink


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tiddlywink

(ˈtɪdlɪˌwɪŋk) ,

tiddleywink

or

tiddledywink

n
(Games, other than specified) any of the discs used in the game of tiddlywinks
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Translations

tiddlywink

[ˈtɪdlɪwɪŋk] Npulga f tiddlywinks (= game) → juego m de las pulgas
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
References in classic literature ?
There was a chandelier from Tiddlywinks for the look of the thing, but of course she lit the residence herself.
Molly Cunliffe, 16 months, choked on the cord of a bag hanging from the cot at Tiddlywink's nursery in 2005.
Baring in mind we were the only people eating at the time - there was a young couple across the lounge who seemed to have kicked off their shoes for a coke and a Tiddlywink - we were reclining next to our blue sheet for around 45 minutes without food.
--reporter Ed Schneider of the Washington Post, in the midst of a lengthy frontpage feature section profile of two champion tiddlywink players.
A Mrs Arthur told me how she had been seven years of age in 1941, and how she had started crying as she watched her own cat, Tiddlywink, join the stream of migrating moggies as they filed up the entries of Hopwood Street.
That's why the schedules are full of X-Factor-style talent hunts, and it can't be long until a panel of experts are searching for the nation's best undiscovered tiddlywink player.
As someone who will never be an Olympian unless they introduce freestyle tiddlywink flipping into the programme, I am going to miss all the more unusual sports on show, like the modern pentathlon.
Common Tiddlywink terms include the John Lennon Memorial Shot, the Squidger, the Doubleton and the Gromp.
If the plan goes ahead, children will be moved to neighbouring council-run creche Tiddlywinks, half-a-mile away at the Deighton Centre.
JOE Canning claims GAA chiefs will turn hurling into a game of 'tiddlywinks' if they pursue a hard-line approach to discipline.
The firm produce giant-size Tubby board games including snakes and ladders and a plastic playmat board for Teletubby Tiddlywinks.
Tiddlywinks Nursery at the Deighton Centre joined with Chestnut Nursery for the celebrations.