Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The game of jackstraws.
- n. One of the straws used in playing jackstraws.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A long splinter of wood, bone, ivory, or the like, such as is used in playing some games, as jackstraws.
- n. pl, A game played with such pegs, pins, or splinters, as push-pin or jackstraws.
- n. A small peg used in keeping count in some games, as cribbage.
Wiktionary
- n. One of the straws used in the game of jackstraws (spillikins)
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. See spilikin.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a thin strip of wood used in playing the game of jackstraws
Etymologies
- Probably alteration of Flemish spelleken, diminutive of spelle, pin, from Middle Flemish, ultimately from Medieval Latin spīnula, diminutive of Latin spīna, thorn. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It's so very difficult to play a game with a spillikin on one side and a sledge-hammer on the other. ”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘spillikin’.
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Cribbage
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so thin!
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thekatespanos's list
pomposity, gaggle, scintilla, lemming, bilk, vanquish, conflate, plenary, verisimilitude, perspicacious, rattletrap, obdurate and 325 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
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Field Mass
for the same
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persnickety parlance
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End in -kin
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gherkin, merkin, firkin, malkin, pumpkin, bumpkin, pipkin, bodkin, napkin, mannikin, pigskin, sealskin and 83 more...
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