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🟦 A small disc 🟦 To flick a disc
tiddlywink

tiddlywink

3 9.9
A small, flat disc that players flick into a cup in a table game
  • noun
  • /ˈtɪdliˌwɪŋk/
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  • Teach him tiddlywinks, not chess.
  • play tiddlywinks

Examples

  • At the game night, we introduced tiddlywinks to everyone, and they loved it.

  • It's hardly as simple as tiddlywinks or as easy as Connect 4.

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  • This is Major League Baseball, not tiddlywinks.

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  • But then again, not bad when, as I always say, you consider that more people play competitive tiddlywinks than sail or aspire.

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  • Play tiddlywinks.

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  • No time for tiddlywinks.

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  • We spent the afternoon playing with tiddlywinks in the sunny backyard.

  • The kids laughed as they competed to see who could flip their tiddlywinks into the cup first.

Surface Forms

tiddlywink singular
tiddlywinks plural

Morphology

tiddlywink = tiddly + wink (opaque) = tiddly + wink

Although built from 'tiddly' + 'wink', the specialized sense 'a small disc used in the game' is lexicalized and not predictable from the parts by an average learner.

Etymology

Tiddlywink probably comes from playful English parts tiddly (a way to say 'small') and wink ('a quick move' or 'a flick'), so the name paints a picture of a 'small thing you flick' and fits the tiny, flat disc used in the game.